A LinkedIn Loophole Allowed Members to Post Fictitious Job Openings on Company Pages

guest · Jul 29, 2019

A LinkedIn Loophole Allowed Members to Post Fictitious Job Openings on Company Pages
Netherlands recruiter Michel Rijnders was able to add listings for CEOs at LinkedIn, Google
July 27, 2019
https://www.adweek.com/digital/a-li...ost-fictitious-job-openings-on-company-pages/

LinkedIn patched up a loophole that enabled members to post job openings on company pages without authorization.
Netherlands-based online recruiter Michel Rijnders discovered the loophole and posted about it on LinkedIn, noting that he was even able to create a job opening for CEO of LinkedIn, which appeared on the professional network’s official company page.

Rijnders wrote, “Everyone can post jobs that are assigned to any employer of their choosing. For example, I can post a job at LinkedIn. When I create a job post for a company, no questions are asked. You recommend to receive applications via LinkedIn, but I can also set up an external URL to which applicants for your job are redirected.”
He was also able to create a job listing for CEO of Google.

A LinkedIn spokesperson said, “This issue was caused by a bug in our online jobs experience that allowed members to edit the company after a job had already been posted. The issue has now been resolved. Fraudulent job postings are a clear violation of our terms of service. [...]"
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Rijnders told Binder in an email, “For a while I noticed scrapers, like Jooble, posting massive amounts of jobs at companies on LinkedIn without consent of those companies. [...] The bad thing is (that the scrapers) collect the application details of applicants who think they actually apply at the company. [...]”
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LinkedIn jobs, we have a problem

When you are evil you can promote your business via LinkedIn company pages of competitors. Or you abuse this system to catch personal details of applicants that think they are applying at LinkedIn, or the NSA. Phishing and identity fraud are no unlikely scenarios. But the real bad guys probably can think of better frauds than I can.

In the meantime there are already businesses phishing for personal data by abusing this system.
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