LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, inferred salaries

Re:LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, ... by civilized on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:20AM (#27676129)

I try to look on the bright side these days. Can't wait to find out all the weird stuff LinkedIn knows or has completely wild-ass guessed about me!

And by the way, recently YouTube has been serving me exclusively Spanish-language ads. I am probably 0% Hispanic ethnically and have no knowledge of Spanish. Would be cool to get a data leak that shows what's up with that!

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Re:LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, ... by StevenRayOrr on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:45AM (#27676527)

I started having a similar issue with Spotify a couple years ago. Eventually I discovered that someone else was using my (free) account to listen to bunch of Spanish-language music that I'd never heard of. I don't think my Spotify recommendations ever recovered.

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Re:LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, ... by tylerfontaine on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:37AM (#27676404)

> recently YouTube has been serving me exclusively Spanish-language ads

This has been happening to me, but on Twitter! I know a very basic amount of Spanish, but am a non-hispanic dude in semi-rural Texas.

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Re:LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, ... by JKCalhoun on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:58AM (#27676739)

> semi-rural Texas

Pattern matched.

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Re:LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, ... by JKCalhoun on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:57AM (#27676722)

LOL, w-a-y b-a-c-k when it was only your name and address that was sold to marketers and the spam was snail mail, friends and I would sing up for things, order catalogs etc. using a different name each time. Then when the junk mail came you knew who sold you out.

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Re:LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, ... by nostoc on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:37AM (#27676388)

Looks like this data has been collected through the official API, so you could just query yourself in there.

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Re:LinkedIn breach reportedly exposes data of 92% of users, ... by civilized on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:59AM (#27676753)

I'm too lazy, that's why I appreciate these hackers who go to all the trouble on my behalf for free!

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