LinkedIn Data Leak: Spam Emails Starting to Hit Users’ Inboxes

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LinkedIn Data Leak: Spam Emails Starting to Hit Users’ Inboxes

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If you use LinkedIn, the recent leak of user info is a good one to know about, especially with scammers now using the stolen info in their email campaigns. The linked article has some nice screenshots of the emails people are getting as well. Watch out for Molly and Kate.
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Users of the employment-oriented online service are being targeted with an assortment of phishing emails and scams in an attempt to hijack their LinkedIn accounts or promote fake LinkedIn email leads.

According to Bitdefender Antispam Lab telemetry, ramifications of the LinkedIn data leak incident seem to have already manifested through new spam campaigns targeting inboxes of hundreds of thousands of users.
https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/ ... _view=true
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