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LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by woshang to c/technology

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The same threat actor has leaked larger amounts of data from LinkedIn dated 2023. They claim this new data contains 35M lines and is 12 GB uncompressed.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you're implying here regarding headers? Email is insecure regardless; even when using SMTP with TLS, it's not like the headers are exposed whereas the body would be encrypted or something.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

well with PGP, the header is unencrypted

Is there a single large company that even sends PGP email?

logging into example.com with the user's email and that 2fa code is going to be a breeze

Sure, IF 1. you already have the user's password, and 2. a new code wouldn't be required/the previous code invalidated when initiating a new login session?

Like, I'm not saying that 2FA codes via email is secure, but you're implying that they are making a security hole via this - which I don't see.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pgp, the greatest program never used by anyone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used it. For about 10 minutes. Then I read the help files. Then I searched. Then I used it some more. Then I uninstalled it.

[–] jarfil 1 points 1 year ago

Unless you followed by installing gpg... then you failed. There are tons of uses for it, not necessarily encrypting emails (or more precisely, it kind of sucks at encrypting emails).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah not following the logic. 2FA via email is insecure. Doesn’t matter where in the email. That person is confused about something.