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Fraudsters ask for a security deposit and even provide fake documents before disappearing into thin air

An archive with data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by people behind the hack.

"We're doing some early tests to create a unique audio experience connected to your professional identity," LinkedIn said in a statement.

Remote job postings on Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has increased more than five times during the pandemic.

Telecommuting or Work-From-Home has also been appreciated by women across the workforce in India during the pandemic

However, the index shows a dip in India's overall confidence as the composite score dropped from 58 in December 2020 to 54 in January 2021.

"This uptick in new entrepreneurs was particularly strong in the fields of mental healthcare, e-learning and online media," according to the latest LinkedIn 'Workforce Confidence Index'.

LinkedIn, which is the world's largest professional network with nearly 740 million members in more than 200 countries, was later up and running.

More than one-third of job seekers in India are worried about too many recruitment stages and extensively long application documents

The hacking group has used multiple platforms to communicate with potential targets, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram, Discord, Keybase and email.

India has remained cautiously optimistic and resilient in the face of uncertainty, and overall confidence scores remained steady between plus-50 and plus-57 from April to November.

Earlier in the year, hiring declines reached a low of below -50 per cent year-on-year in April, before starting to slowly recover.

We cannot control what people think about us. But we can adjust what people see

According to the company, LinkedIn's new Career Explorer tool helps professionals identify new career paths where most required skills overlap with their current roles.

More professionals are turning to LinkedIn Learning to increase their knowledge capital, watching more than 1 million hours of content each week -- more than double the amount a year ago.

LinkedIn survey showed that two in five professionals are experiencing increased stress or anxiety due to Covid, and as the pandemic took hold only one in five professionals were offered more time off for well-being

Scraping is a form of data collection that relies on unauthorised automation for the purpose of extracting data from a website or app.