Five reasons why Microsoft should not have acquired LinkedIn

Sooraj Shah
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How can Microsoft justify the hefty $26.2bn price tag?

2. Insecurity

Password 123456

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.

Related: Top 6 dumb passwords from the LinkedIn hack

Microsoft already has to patch its own products in a bid to stop cyber criminals getting into systems and extracting sensitive information, so it won't be a surprise if one of its first acts is to have a look at how security is handled at LinkedIn (be worried, security folks at LinkedIn).

Microsoft will want to ensure that LinkedIn, despite remaining independent of the software firm, will never ever suffer another data breach like this one.

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