Apr 01
Security breaches in the digital world seem to be all too common these days, and such malicious activity does seem to have picked up in pace in recent times, too. Thankfully, what has happened with the email addresses of LinkedIn users this time around IS NOT a security breach, but rather, Sell Hack, a free extension for the Chrome browser, will rely on an algorithm in order for it to “guess” members’ email addresses. This would mean Sell Hack falls back upon publicly available data, after performing a comparison against the rest of the information online, resulting in storing such lookups that ends up in a giant database.
LinkedIn Email Addresses Exposed Via Browser Plug-In Software original content from Ubergizmo. 
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