LinkedIn confirmó que el listado de credenciales de más de 100 millones de usuarios publicado en la Web es legítimo. Y no solo eso, sino que los datos fueron robados en un ataque producido en 2012.
En ese entonces, la red social había sido víctima de un acceso no autorizado, a raíz del cual se publicaron las contraseñas de 6,5 millones de miembros registrados. Ayer, se supo que el alcance logrado por este criminal fue mucho mayor, ya que se publicó otro gran bloque de credenciales.
There are seriously not enough hours in the day to maintain a significant presence on all the social networks out there. So it’s a little aggravating when one member of the social media regime steps up its email notifications, like LinkedIn has recently.
Back in November, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner denied that the company was sending an abnormally large number of emails. He said, “People feel like they’re seeing more email, but that’s not really the case.” I’m not sure about that.
Maybe I expect a little more out of LinkedIn. But in the last couple of days, I got a congratulatory email telling me that I was “one of the top 5% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2012!” This I seriously doubt. I’m wondering if this is not some kind of a psychological play on their part. In other words, if you find out you’re good at something that you didn’t know about, then it gives you a little boost to go look at it again. And there’s a click for LinkedIn. But then I’m cynical. (más…)
