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Amazon has gotten contact addresses for me from Gravatar being hacked, so it's not just a matter of "you should have known linkedin will share with anyone". Rec
by Macha 3y ago
Amazon has gotten contact addresses for me from Gravatar being hacked, so it's not just a matter of "you should have known linkedin will share with anyone". Recruiters, even at major tech companies, are very don't ask don't tell with the vendors that will get them direct contact details for an extra couple of percent in response rate.
- reaperducer 3y agoAmazon has gotten contact addresses for me from Gravatar being hacked, so it's not just a matter of "you should have known linkedin will share with anyone". My cat gets spam to his facebook-catname@example.com address. I created the address to segregate his mail from mine. It was only used to sign up for his Facebook account. The cat is long dead, but he still gets spam from whomever Facebook sold/leaked/trusted partered his information to.
- jruohonen 3y agoWell like with any kind of a "social network", you'd better always have zero trust. I haven't bookmarked the news, but this case is hardly the first showing that LinkedIn leaks to everywhere. I remember this case from 2019: https://www.troyhunt.com/data-enrichment-people-data-labs-and-another-622m-email-addresses/ https://www.troyhunt.com/data-enrichment-people-data-labs-an... So you have the phone numbers and geolocation stuff there, but mostly it seems to be the usual data brokerage stuff, i.e. useless garbage data.