SignalHire keeps track of active and former profiles on LinkedIn, and during the Oct 9-11 timeframe SignalHire said it saw somewhat smaller but still unprecedented drops in active profiles tied to Amazon and Apple. KrebsOnSecurity hired Menlo Park, Calif.-based SignalHire to check Pinho’s numbers. In June, LinkedIn acknowledged it was seeing a rise in fraudulent activity happening on the platform. LinkedIn declined to answer questions about the account purges, saying only that the company is constantly working to keep the platform free of fake accounts. Neither Amazon or Apple responded to requests for comment. Pinho said his scraper shows that the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming current roles at Amazon fell from roughly 1.25 million to 838,601 in just one day, a 33 percent drop: Pinho’s screenshot below shows the daily count of employees as displayed on Amazon’s LinkedIn homepage. Pinho has been using LinkedIn to monitor daily employee headcounts at several dozen large organizations, and last week he noticed that two of them had far fewer people claiming to work for them than they did just 24 hours previously. Jay Pinho is a developer who is working on a product that tracks company data, including hiring. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in the creation of fake employee accounts that pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate users. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc.
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