- July 5, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
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Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
1 – LinkedIn “breach” reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, including inferred salaries
LinkedIn has been hit again with a security breach that exposed the data of 700 million users which, if proven true, would mean that 92% of the site’s users would have had their data compromised. Reports say that the data breached (and now available for sale on the dark web include phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation data, and inferred salaries. LinkedIn denies that the data was breach and says in a statement:
“While we’re still investigating this issue, our initial analysis indicates that the dataset includes information scraped from LinkedIn as well as information obtained from other sources. This was not a LinkedIn data breach and our investigation has…
