LinkedIn began in co-founder Reid Hoffman’s living room in 2002 and was officially launched on May 5, 2003. Today, LinkedIn leads a diversified business with revenues from membership subscriptions, advertising sales and recruitment solutions under the leadership of Ryan Roslansky. In December 2016, Microsoft completed its acquisition of LinkedIn, bringing together the world’s leading professional cloud and the world’s leading professional network.

On June 7 a cybercrime research company Cyble said that, on Wednesday it came across an interesting post where an actor was “giving away” LinkedIn resumes (or giving it for free) – per the actor, the data is from 2015-2018. The locations were mostly from European region as below:

Source of the data: The data appears to have been scrapped from people’s LinkedIn profile. The actor alleged that they don’t have the data related to other countries at this point. However, given the scale of this leak, it won’t surprise us if that’s the case in reality.

Recommendations:

• Users should tighten the privacy settings of their public LinkedIn profile
• Stay vigilant of suspicious connection requests, and in the event of noting a fake/suspicious profile, report that to the LinkedIn support team for further actions

Cyble is currently indexing the data on AmiBreached.com and will be notifying its subscribers soon if they are affected.