Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn
Summary: LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Apple fell by roughly half between October 10 and 11, 2022, from 576,562, while profiles claiming Amazon roles dropped from about 1.25 million to 838,601 in one day, a 33 percent decline, according to developer Jay Pinho's tracking. LinkedIn declined to answer questions about the purges, saying only that it constantly works to keep the platform free of fake accounts, and its security systems block approximately 96 percent of fake accounts.
What you should know: SignalHire, hired by KrebsOnSecurity to check the numbers, recorded drops of 7-10 percent of all profiles against a normal daily variation of plus or minus one percent, and researcher Nicholas Weaver noted the purge may mean LinkedIn's reported usage and active-account statistics are off by quite a bit.
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