LinkedIn secretely scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data
2026-04-04T13:23:28Z•c81fdd0190bdd34800d2152e1d5ef3768708996f15a62ba63f3b4f6af3d0502e
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What happened
Collection of recent security news: a report dubbed "BrowserGate" alleges LinkedIn uses hidden JavaScript to scan visitors for 6,000+ Chrome extensions and collect device data (privacy/browser‑fingerprinting risk); Hims & Hers discloses a data breach after support tickets were stolen from a third‑party Zendesk instance; German political party Die Linke confirms data theft by Qilin ransomware operators amid outage and extortion threats; CERT‑EU attributes a European Commission cloud hack to TeamPCP, exposing data from ~30 EU entities; threat actors are abusing the Claude Code leak to distribute
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- bleepingcomputer
- Record identifier
- c81fdd0190bdd34800d2152e1d5ef3768708996f15a62ba63f3b4f6af3d0502e
- Enrichment time
- 2026-04-04T13:23:28Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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