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LinkedIn Warns 9.5 Million Lynda Users About Database Breach (neowin.net)
Less than four weeks after Microsoft formally acquired LinkedIn for $26 billion, there's been a database breach.
An anonymous reader writes:
LinkedIn is sending emails to 9.5 million users of Lynda.com, its online learning subsidiary, warning the users of a database breach by "an unauthorized third party". The affected database included contact information for at least some of the users. An email to customers says "while we have no evidence that your specific account was accessed or that any data has been made publicly available, we wanted to notify you as a precautionary measure." Ironically, the breach comes less than a month after Russia blocked access to LinkedIn over privacy concerns.
LinkedIn has also reset the passwords for 55,000 Lynda.com accounts (though apparently many of its users don't have accounts with passwords).
LinkedIn has also reset the passwords for 55,000 Lynda.com accounts (though apparently many of its users don't have accounts with passwords).
LinkedIn: Don't blame us, Microsoft is in charge now.
Microsoft: Don't blame us, we just own the company.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
actually accepted the lynda offer? Wow!
Lots of Lynda customers are businesses who use Federated Services logins.
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Happy I cancelled when they where bought.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
If anyone would notice that their data from Linked In leaked. I mean, LinkedIn is such a data mining fanatic, it'd be hard to tell the difference between their normal spamming and spyware and someone else using that same data.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
I just checked the calendar, it's not April 1st. So exactly what drugs are you on? Have you considered going in for a med check?
Check the previous Slashdot article. The meds won't help.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
"Amateurs" - Yahoo
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Think they mean "coincidentally".
You know what they say about opinions. They're all fabulous!
This is what, the 5th major compromise of LinkedIn's data in the past 2 or 3 years? How are there still people that haven't dumped their accounts? Why is LinkedIn still considered the main business social network?
> Less then four weeks after Microsoft
You'd think someone posting an article, especially with "Editor" in their name, would know how to use 'then' and 'than' properly. Seriously, people, it's not that hard.
And thank Gawd that you posted the most important thing on the internet this year by pointing this out!
Otherwise you would have been the only person who noticed.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
The editors are Indians, the kind from Southeast Asia, who are only capable of doing the needful. Between the inept editors and the special snowflakes posting on /. this place has been on the decline for years.
Then again, we have your always interesting and insightful commentary. So I figure that balances everything out.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
This is crazy. There are best practices that need to be followed for datasets. We need an agency (similar yo what the FCC does) setup to set legal requirements for data systems that hold US resident's information, such as Hashing technologies to use, network security technologies, etc.
Additionally we need a law that says all companies that allow US residents to create accounts need to provide a verifiable method for people to delete their data stored on their servers (Accounts, contact information, billing information, etc)
Not the only one, no. Just a little time spent learning proper English grammar can go a long way towards disguising a lack of formal education.
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Not the only one, no. Just a little time spent learning proper English grammar can go a long way towards disguising a lack of formal education.
Let's diagram sentences!
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.