The same threat actor has leaked larger amounts of data from LinkedIn dated 2023. They claim this new data contains 35M lines and is 12 GB uncompressed.

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    1 year ago

    and said that they would have done more if possible.

    This there is the MO I was talking about.

    I can’t conclusively say whether or not LinkedIn intentionally sold my email, or whether they were just infected at the time. However, I feel like the former is at least as feasible, and even if it was the latter it’s still reprehensible of them to be so lax in their security. Like I say, I’ve only experienced 2 websites that did that, and I’ve made up countless emails going on for years before then.

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      1 year ago

      They don’t have lax security. They use industry standard measures, including encryption in transit and at rest, salted passwords (they were caught without salt over a decade ago and fixed it), internal training on security, phishing simulations, the works. Your data is their business, they don’t want to lose it.