If it's any consolation, LinkedIn is notoriously terrible at this, so your data was probably out there as early as 2016 and almost certainly after 2021, when they managed to get hit with similar breaches twice in the same year.
DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, fuck. This was the ONE social media site that I put my data on, and that was out of necessity (job hunting). I know it’s not the same, but this sort of feels like the Equifax breach.
MudMan@kbin.social 7 months ago
woshang@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And we share real background info, like very specific. This could lead them to our friends, colleagues!
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
linked in that is dentralized
Now you shut your damn mouth, let’s just let Linked In die like it was always supposed to. It’s not some sort of positive networking platform, it’s just a platform that reinforces the old boys club, with some cringey posts from people who are trying to hard.
FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not an actual leak. It’s mostly scraped data.
rar@discuss.online 7 months ago
Same here, fuck.
mriormro@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I stopped using LinkedIn several years ago when it was turning into some hideous social media thing rather than just a place to keep an updated cv. I took a look at it six or so months ago and Jesus Christ, what the fuck happened?
It appears to now just be filled with people desperately trying to convince other people that they’re an expert when in reality they’re just talking to themselves and no one’s really listening.
half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s so stupid, but definitely can be helpful professionally to maintain a profile there. Depends on your experience and what field you’re in, of course, but recruiters seem to use it a fair amount.
Definitely don’t use it for the garbage social media aspect, but I’ve been convinced of its utility after getting a new job through a recruiter last year from there without even looking. The process was sooo easy compared to applying for jobs the traditional way. Icing on the cake was that it came with a 50% raise and was for a position I would never have applied for on my own but I love it. Maybe it was lightning in a bottle, but I figure doesn’t hurt to keep up a page just in case another good opportunity comes along.
mriormro@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For sure, there’s definitely utility to having one. I just got fed up with constantly getting pinged by recruiters that were clearly bots as well as all of the @ mentioning on said ‘chicken soup for the soul’ bullshit posts.
half_fiction@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Oh god yeah, I feel that. I’d have a harder time keeping mine up if my colleagues were actually attempting to engage with me on it haha.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Its all HR people constantly job hunting by sharing the equivalent of those “hang in there” wall posters from the 90s and adding a paragraph about what it takes to make it in the workforce.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 7 months ago
It still works as intended if you ignore all that and keep your head down. I get a fair amount of relevant offers and I got rather nice jobs through it over the last 15 years.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
And everyone is a *manager or “executive of”. Even a McDonalds burger flipper is “executive in charge of protein rotation”