{"id":10273,"date":"2014-04-01T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=10273"},"modified":"2014-04-01T14:32:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T14:32:20","slug":"linkedin-email-addresses-exposed-by-plug-in-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=10273","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn email addresses exposed by plug-in software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/linkedin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10274\" alt=\"linkedin\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/linkedin.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/linkedin.jpg 624w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/linkedin-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>The email addresses of LinkedIn users can easily be exposed via a web browser add-on tool, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Sell Hack is available as a free extension to the Chrome browser that, once installed, will pop up a &#8220;hack in&#8221; button on LinkedIn profiles.<\/p>\n<p>Users can then find the email address associated with the account even if they are not connected.<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn said it was taking legal action over the plug-in and advised users to uninstall it.<\/p>\n<p>Sell Hack insisted that the the tool was created for marketing professionals and that all data is publicly available.<\/p>\n<p>On its website it said: &#8220;We just do the heavy lifting and complicated computing to save you time, We aren&#8217;t doing anything malicious to LinkedIn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the social network for professionals did not agree.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are doing everything we can to shut Sell Hack down. On 31 March LinkedIn&#8217;s legal team delivered Sell Hack a cease-and-desist letter as a result of several violations,&#8221; a spokesman told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LinkedIn members who downloaded Sell Hack should uninstall it immediately and contact Sell Hack requesting that their data be deleted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said that members should &#8220;use caution&#8221; before downloading any third-party extension or app.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Often times, as with the Sell Hack case, extensions can upload your private LinkedIn information without your explicit consent,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The email addresses of LinkedIn users can easily be exposed via a web browser add-on tool, it has been revealed. Sell Hack is available as a free extension to the Chrome browser that, once installed, will pop up a &#8220;hack in&#8221; button on LinkedIn profiles. Users can then find the email address associated with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":10274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-10273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}