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Big Company Cyberint said on Monday that a lot of people’s LinkedIn accounts got locked or taken over by bad people in a big hacking campaign around the world.
Some of the people who use LinkedIn found out that they couldn’t get into their accounts anymore. They went to places like Reddit, Twitter, and the Microsoft forums to tell everyone that their accounts were frozen or banned. A website called BleepingComputer talked about this too.
A person named Coral Tayar who works at Cyberint said that some of the people had to pay money to the bad people to get their accounts back. Others were told that their accounts would be deleted forever. She wrote about this on a website called a blog.
Even though LinkedIn hasn’t said anything official yet, it looks like the people who are supposed to help on LinkedIn are taking a long time to answer. There are lots of people asking for help, so things are very busy.
The people who use LinkedIn and are having problems are feeling really frustrated. They tried to talk to the LinkedIn support people, but they didn’t get any help. They are upset that the company is not helping them when they need it.
Someone who had their LinkedIn account taken over talked about it on Reddit. They said their account was stolen six days ago. The bad person changed their email in the middle of the night, and they couldn’t stop it. They tried to tell LinkedIn about it, but nobody answered them. They even tried on Twitter, but still no help. They are not happy with LinkedIn’s service.
Cyberint looked at Google Trends and found something interesting. Many more people searched on Google for things like “LinkedIn account hacked” or “LinkedIn account recovery” in the past 90 days. The word “breakout” means the searches grew a lot, like more than 5000%.
A bunch of bad actions seem to be happening where attackers are using stolen passwords or trying really hard to guess passwords to get into LinkedIn accounts that are not well protected.
Once the bad people get into these accounts, they quickly change the email address linked to the account to one from “rambler.ru”. They also reset the password and make it so that the real owner can’t get in anymore. This makes it even harder for the real owner to get their account back.
For the accounts that had strong passwords or used something called two-factor authentication, LinkedIn is stopping them temporarily to keep them safe. This happens when there are many wrong login attempts.
People whose accounts got affected are being asked to prove that they really own the account and also to change their password before they can use their account again.
LinkedIn hasn’t said anything official about this problem yet, but Cyberint, the company that found out about this, says that people should make their passwords strong and use two-factor authentication to keep their accounts safe.
