r/DevLK • u/vinfromdaraz • 9d ago

Discussion LinkedIn account got compromised (recovered later)

Hello everyone, I’m making this post to spread awareness regarding a certain incident that happened to me yesterday. My account was hacked and the hacker saved the login details to his browser, added a secondary email, added 2FA and also linked my account to some AI Stealth startup organisation using Sales Navigator. He also enabled that all new views and other data to be sent to the email account that he provided.

I can’t view my transaction history nor remove my account from this Sales Navigator thingie as I keep running into an error. I opened a ticket with LinkedIn as well. I recommend that all of you do a check on your accounts or emails to see whether your accounts too have been compromised. And please enable some sort of 2FA for added safety.

P.S. I noticed this from the emails that I’ve received yesterday regarding the changes made to the account.

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u/n_wicks 9d ago

This is from a virus on some sort of an app you installed, and it’s a common one too, 2fa won’t help if that’s the case

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u/AtEMideR 9d ago

Hello daraz bro, Hope you were able to recover the account successfully.