May 1, 2024 · 1 min read

Time-travelling LinkedIn hackers tried to break into my account

Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager

I appreciate that LinkedIn forewarned me 4 hours in advance that someone in the future was trying to hack my LinkedIn account remotely from Atlanta, Georgia.

My obvious concern remains though about time-travelling LinkedIn hackers.

My LinkedIn password is somewhere around 25 random characters of upper & lower case letters, numbers, (Oxford comma) and symbols, and current AI or computer technology is not able to brute force hack my password.

And I just changed my password again, for fun.

And I have 2 factor Authorization tied to my smartphone to boot, any time an unauthorized device tries to access my account.

This email was also sent yesterday (Tuesday) but LinkedIn suspended my account a few days earlier over the weekend due to “suspicious activity”.

Apparently those darn time-travelling LinkedIn hackers are persistent.

Oh, and Atlanta is about 1,000 miles from where I currently live, so it seems that time-travelling LinkedIn hackers actually *were* trying to hack my LinkedIn account.

I swear, I’m not making this up, screencap of email for proof.

FROM THE THREAD

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Tom Kirkmanreplying to BenTor Ben PummillMay 1, 2024
that right there is the *perfect* comment to this post.

Well done, good sir 👍
Tom Kirkmanreplying to LinkedIn HelpMay 1, 2024
what is LinkedIn AI doing to combat time-travelling hackers here?

And will this be a growing security risk in the future?

Pretty sure that the LI AI has a useful answer to this issue.

Anyway, hope I made your day less boring : )
Tom Kirkmanreplying to LinkedIn HelpMay 1, 2024
what is LinkedIn AI doing to combat time-travelling hackers here?

And will this be a growing security risk in the future?

Pretty sure that the LI AI has a useful answer to this issue.

Anyway, hope I made your day less boring : )
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Stuart TurleyMay 1, 2024
I literally just asked the LinkedIn Help team to help solve the problem of time-travelling LinkedIn hackers.

Hopefully, they will respond and just run with it.

I've tagged the LI Help team before in jest, and they generally play along.

Totally unrelated screencap:
Tom KirkmanMay 1, 2024
⚡️Adam B. Human programmers can still be stupider than AI
Tom KirkmanMay 1, 2024
Mostly I just post my random thoughts here, off the cuff.
No idea why anyone would actually *want* to hack my LI account.
Maybe they want to urgently post mainstream media nonsense, instead of my unmainstream stuff?
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Adam GarlingerMay 1, 2024
sounds like you are talking about the current Columbia University liberal arts shenanigans.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to BenTor Ben PummillMay 1, 2024
my parents wanted me to be a preacher. I got kicked out for asking too many questions.

True story.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Ahmed ElSharawyMay 1, 2024
yes I know. There goes my joke down the drain ...
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Ahmed ElSharawyMay 1, 2024
mostly I do this for the amusing comments.

I'm hoping the LinkedIn Help team will actually respond. With an AI answer : )
Tom KirkmanMay 1, 2024
Horacio Camacho I don't personally know anyone that lives in Atlanta.

But my LI account here gets a fair amount of views pretty much daily. Averaging 6.5 million views per year of the original stuff that I write.

I've been on anon forums since before the turn of the century, and understand the stragetic goal of compromising "uncontrollable" voices.

But my amusement is, my password is so long and convoluted that it simply cannot be brute forced hacked by current technologies.
Tom KirkmanMay 1, 2024
BenTor Ben Pummill
This is equal to the square root of minus one"
Tom Kirkmanreplying to Brad LMay 1, 2024
I'm in EST (in Michigan). But nowhere near Atlanta.

My wifi is local, not in Atlanta.

I don't use a VPN for accessing LinkedIn, although I have used VPNs in the past to access various sites.

And I really have had numerous attempts in the past by others to remotely log into my LinkedIn account.

That's why I have an uncrackeable password combined with 2 step authorization, same with my email accounts and bank accounts.
Tom Kirkmanreplying to BenTor Ben PummillMay 1, 2024
I remain frustrated that so far, only 1 person caught the joke in my first sentence:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tomkirkman_the-last-digit-of-pi-is-zero-this-was-finally-activity-7187440844575064064-tmgT
Tom KirkmanMay 2, 2024
⚡️Adam B. GIGO

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tomkirkman_climate-models-can-run-for-months-on-supercomputers-activity-7191767731778543616-hHrt
Tom KirkmanMay 2, 2024
⚡️Adam B. GIGO

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tomkirkman_climate-models-can-run-for-months-on-supercomputers-activity-7191767731778543616-hHrt

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