Data Breach

1. Linkedin Data Breach 2021

2. 700 million LinkedIn users data was
compromised.
One million sample dataset were
published on the Dark Web by the hacker.
A hacker going by the moniker of “God
User” used data scraping techniques by
exploiting the site.
The breach was attributed to a group of
Russian-speaking hackers known as
Clop.

3. Data Breach Causes

4. WHAT CAUSED THE DATA BREACH?
LinkedIn claims that this was a case
of data scraping and data
aggregation from different sources.
LinkedIn’s API (Application
Programming Interface) was
misused by a third party to gain
access to the personal data of
millions of users.

6. Full Names Email
Addresses
Phone
Numbers
Physical
Addresses
Geolocation
Background
Detials
This caused the following
information to be compromised...

7. Data Breach
Consequences

8. CONSEQUENCES OF THE DATA BREACH
Consequences faced by
LinkedIn
Damage of
reputation
Legal/
Regulatory
Financial
impact
Operation
disruption
Long term
impact
Loss of
trust

9. CONSEQUENCES OF THE DATA BREACH
Consequences faced by
LinkedIn users
Phishing/
Identity
theft
User
vigilance
More
vulnerable
Privacy
concerns
Security
costs
Data
exposed

10. Data Breach Mitigation

13. As an EY Consultant, I would like to give the following
recommendations to Linkedin to avoid such incidents in
future:

17. Made By:
Meenu Saji Philip
Miriam karishma
Nancy Jain
Natasha Agarwal
Navya Bhati
Nikita Sharma
Nikitha K Judy
Raina Tuteja