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Happened to me yesterday, I was baffled but then I found that you can request the one time password just using the email associated with the LinkedIn account, so the password wasn't compromised

I have changed the password, main mail and in the privacy settings of LinkedIn removed the visibility of the email

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Linkedin will silently change your visibility settings without your consent.

Do you have a source for that? Or any more info? It’s not that I doubt it, I ask because some details like my work email, job title and place of employment has been leaking into the hands of marketing companies and I an trying to figure out how.

Your own company could've sold it to data brokers. Look into Equifax's Work Number score, it includes fun things like where you worked and how much you made. But no, let's not unionize or anything.

Companies with union labor also sell their employees' data to Equifax.

Unions are on board with this, see e.g. https://unitedafa.org/news/2020/5/9/employment-verification-...

What I don’t get is what is the ploy here. I’m getting them too, but have no indication my email is hacked. Therefore what’s happening?

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