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LinkedIn Emails Exposed Via Browser Add On

posted by NCommander on Wednesday April 02 2014, @08:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the how-is-this-possible? dept.

lhsi writes:

The BBC is reporting that the email addresses of LinkedIn users can be exposed via a web browser add on. A LinkedIn spokesman told the BBC "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"

NCommander adds: Sell Hack is a plugin for Chrome that allows you to retrieve emails from LinkedIn itself. The article goes on to say that Sell Hack is complying with the cease and desist, but actual details remain somewhat light. If anyone is familiar with the inner works of this plugin, I'll amend this article to include the details.

This isn't LinkedIn's first battle with third party services

 
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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 03 2014, @12:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 03 2014, @12:26AM (#25335)

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