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Title: [2016-05-18]Hacker Sells LinkedIn Users’ Data for Bitcoin
Post by: Blawpaw on May 19, 2016, 11:25:46 PM
Hacker Sells LinkedIn Users’ Data for Bitcoin

LinkedIn, the professional networking site now has millions of users’ credentials in the public domain. These credentials from the beginning of this decade are up for sale on the deep web. Nothing is private or secure on the internet. Whether it is your photos stored on a cloud platform, credit card information, banking details or login credentials for your mail and social media accounts. If they are not compromised already, then they may get stolen anytime. The same thing happened with LinkedIn few years ago. But who knew that the user data stolen way back in 2012 will return to bite them in the back...

read more (http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/05/19/linkedin-user-credentials-grabs-costs-5-btc/)