{"id":1964,"date":"2020-10-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/linkedin-bug27-10-20-hungarian-users-locations-changed-to-brisbane-australia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:43:17","slug":"linkedin-bug27-10-20-hungarian-users-locations-changed-to-brisbane-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/linkedin-bug27-10-20-hungarian-users-locations-changed-to-brisbane-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkedin Bug(27-10-20) \u2013 Hungarian Users\u2019 Locations Changed to Brisbane, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- ktg-updated-banner --><\/p>\n<p><em>Updated August 2026 \u2014 kept as a short historical note for the original URL (not a live incident report).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> This page archives a <strong>October 2020<\/strong> LinkedIn glitch report. It is not current news, not legal advice, and not an official LinkedIn statement. Details below reflect what was publicly discussed at the time.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>27 October 2020<\/strong>, many Hungarian LinkedIn users found their profile location switched from cities in Hungary (often Budapest) to <strong>Brisbane, Australia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#t1\">What people reported<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#t2\">Timeline (as known then)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#t3\">Why this still matters for engineers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#t4\">Related reading<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong id=\"t1\">1. What people reported<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Location fields flipped en masse for Hungarian members.<\/li>\n<li>Talent sourcer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/thebalazs\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Balazs Paroczay<\/a> was among those who raised the issue publicly and tried LinkedIn support.<\/li>\n<li>Within the first hours after reports spread, a public fix had not yet been confirmed in contemporary write-ups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong id=\"t2\">2. Timeline (as known then)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Morning of 27 Oct 2020:<\/strong> users notice Brisbane on profiles that should show Hungary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>~10 hours later (original article):<\/strong> no confirmed correction yet from LinkedIn in that reporting window.<\/li>\n<li>Afterwards the issue was resolved on LinkedIn\u2019s side (treat modern profiles as unrelated to this archived incident).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong id=\"t3\">3. Why this still matters for engineers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Even huge platforms can ship data bugs that touch identity and location at scale. Practical takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Validate bulk updates with canaries and country\/region invariants.<\/li>\n<li>Separate display labels from canonical geo IDs so a bad join cannot rewrite millions of rows silently.<\/li>\n<li>Have a clear rollback path for profile metadata migrations.<\/li>\n<li>Communicate quickly when user-visible identity fields break \u2014 trust erodes faster than schemas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong id=\"t4\">4. Related reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/what-is-sharding-in-databases\/\">What is Sharding in Databases<\/a> \u2014 scaling data carefully<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/introduction-devops-tools-and-techniques\/\">DevOps Tools and Techniques<\/a> \u2014 shipping with guardrails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This URL is preserved so older inbound links and citations keep working. For current LinkedIn product issues, use LinkedIn Help \u2014 not this archive page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated August 2026 \u2014 kept as a short historical note for the original URL (not a live incident report). 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