How can Microsoft justify the hefty $26.2bn price tag?
2. Insecurity
LinkedIn was hacked in 2012, but what is surprising is that the incident is still causing trouble. A hacker allegedly found an extra 167 million user account details and flogged them online just a month ago.
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Microsoft will want to ensure that LinkedIn, despite remaining independent of the software firm, will never ever suffer another data breach like this one.