Computer security

Linkedin down for several users today in North America

As of Nov 17th, users reported that Linkedin down in several parts of North America, with reports coming from Canada and the USA.

Linkedin down mostly around Toronto, Motreal and Vancouver region in Canada around 1:30 pm EDT. People were initially shocked to see if their accounts were hacked then understood this is downtime for the social media network.

Linkedin Down Stats as per DownDetector on Nov 17th

The below heat map shows where user-submitted problem reports are concentrated over the past 24 hours. It is common for certain problems to be reported throughout the day.

Source: DownDetector

The Downdetector website only reports an incident when the number of reports is significantly higher than the typical volume for that time of day.

Pages managed by users were shown otherwise, and it seems like someone just took the users of their admin roles.

We’ve reached out to Linkedin Support regarding the same and will update this article regarding this Linkedin downtime.

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John Greenwood

He has been working with Cybersec and Infosec market for 12+ years now. Passionate about AI, Cybersecurity, Info security, Blockchain and Machine Learning. When he is not occupied with cybersecurity, he likes to go on bike rides!

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