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\"linkedin\"<\/a>The email addresses of LinkedIn users can easily be exposed via a web browser add-on tool, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n

Sell Hack is available as a free extension to the Chrome browser that, once installed, will pop up a “hack in” button on LinkedIn profiles.<\/p>\n

Users can then find the email address associated with the account even if they are not connected.<\/p>\n

LinkedIn said it was taking legal action over the plug-in and advised users to uninstall it.<\/p>\n

Sell Hack insisted that the the tool was created for marketing professionals and that all data is publicly available.<\/p>\n

On its website it said: “We just do the heavy lifting and complicated computing to save you time, We aren’t doing anything malicious to LinkedIn.”<\/p>\n

But the social network for professionals did not agree.<\/p>\n

“We are doing everything we can to shut Sell Hack down. On 31 March LinkedIn’s legal team delivered Sell Hack a cease-and-desist letter as a result of several violations,” a spokesman told the BBC.<\/p>\n

“LinkedIn members who downloaded Sell Hack should uninstall it immediately and contact Sell Hack requesting that their data be deleted.”<\/p>\n

He said that members should “use caution” before downloading any third-party extension or app.<\/p>\n

“Often times, as with the Sell Hack case, extensions can upload your private LinkedIn information without your explicit consent,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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