700 Mn LinkedIn users' sensitive data being sold online

A massive LinkedIn data breach has been reported that has affected almost everybody on it. The data includes phone numbers, email IDs, physical addresses, geolocation data, workplace information & inferred salaries, and links to 700 million account holders' social media accounts.

According to reports, the new dataset of 700 million subscribers is on sale on the Dark Web, the hacker has posted a sample set of 1 million users for buyers.

The data was reportedly obtained by the hacker by exploiting LinkedIn API. This was used to fetch information that people upload on the platform. The data doesn’t include passwords but other information is valuable and extremely sensitive, leading to phishing attempts and theft.