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LinkedIn reaches 1 million users. [1] 2005: July: Product: LinkedIn launches LinkedIn for Groups, a premium service aimed at power users like recruiters, analysts and researchers. [4] 2005: August: Product: LinkedIn launches a premium service, LinkedIn Business Accounts, which gives businesses access to more powerful search tools. [5] 2006 ...
The social networking website LinkedIn was hacked on June 5, 2012, and passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts were stolen by Russian cybercriminals. [1] [2] Owners of the hacked accounts were no longer able to access their accounts, and the website repeatedly encouraged its users to change their passwords after the incident. [3]
In April 2021, CyberNews claimed that 500 million LinkedIn's accounts have leaked online. [50] However, LinkedIn stated that "We have investigated an alleged set of LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale and have determined that it is actually an aggregation of data from a number of websites and companies". [51] [52]
He started with LinkedIn on December 15, 2008, [1] as Interim President. [2] Weiner played an instrumental role in LinkedIn's acquisition by Microsoft for $26 billion (~$32.4 billion in 2023) in June 2016. [3] Currently, he is the Executive chairman of Linkedin as of 2022. He is also the founding Partner of Next play venture capital.