LinkedIn accounts hacked in widespread hijacking campaign

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• 0110010001100010@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I hate how "hack" is used for any kind of breach. This is 100% credential re-use or a shit password:

  The attackers appear to be using leaked credentials or brute-forcing to attempt to take control of a large number of LinkedIn accounts.

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  For accounts that are appropriately protected by strong passwords and/or two-factor authentication, the multiple takeover attempts resulted in a temporary account lock imposed by the platform as a protection measure.

  That's not to say LinkedIn isn't a steaming pile of garbage, but to say this is a "hack" is disingenuous.

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• djsaskdja@endlesstalk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We need an ActivityPub alternative to LinkedIn

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  • MagneticFusion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It unfortunately would not take off at all because corporations love to gobble Microsoft products and proprietary big tech products in general, and LinkedIn is mainly used as a corporate social media type of platform.

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    • Numlock@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      start small, niches. get the techies and the artists and the rest would find out.

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    • alansuspect@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yup, just added 2FA to my LinkedIn account (not that I use it) and the first step says: "Set up an authenticator app

      1. Install Microsoft Authenticator app or any other authenticator app of your choice on your mobile device"

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  • darmabum@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FinkedIN

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    • Jeff@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like this.

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  SO GLAD that I did not just abandon my acc there when I stopped using it, but I changed every single item of personal data there before I closed (they call it “deleted” ha ha) the account.

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• EnderWi99in@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Update passwords to something actually hard to brute force and turn on two factor authentication and it should (hopefully) prevent this from happening to you.

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