Today let's review a case discovered in 2021. A hacker named as "GOD User" posted on a hacker forum and claim to have 700 million LinkedIn user information and that was quite shocking. In order to prove he wasn't boasting, he even provided a sample of 1 million user information which contained a wealth of information, including full names, genders, email addresses, phone numbers, industry information and so on. It almost exposed all the key professional information about ourselves. The whole internet went wild when the news spread out. LinkedIn, a popular professional networking platform owned by Microsoft with over 700 million users, people share their educational backgrounds and work experiences to expand their networks and find better job opportunities. Who would have thought that such information could be openly sold?
LinkedIn official responded on June 26th local time, stating that preliminary analysis showed the data was scraped from LinkedIn and other channels. They insisted it was not a data breach and claimed that private member data had not been leaked. However, the fact remains that 700 million user profiles were offered for sale and our information security is under a serious threat.
In an era of continuous innovation in internet technology, how to adopt more effective measures to protect user information? It has become an urgent issue for all internet platforms to ponder and resolve.
Platforms need to continuously improve their data security systems, strengthen regulatory efforts, and enhance technical capabilities. They need to prevent such incidents from happening again at the source while providing users with a secure and reliable online social environment and we must also pay attention to our daily personal information protection.
Original source：https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/business-57863738
