{"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":"2026-07-05T03:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T01:25:09","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>Thousands of Hungarian users on LinkedIn wake up to find that their location has changed from Budapest, Hungary to Brisbane, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>This was first noticed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/thebalazs\/?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAAABmqkUB1UmpCEiZaDrMtWT4Ol-b1ZGY3mg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Balazs Paroczay<\/a>, a Hungarian talent sourcing professional who, according to him reached out to LinkedIn help at the time but could not get a response.<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of this article, 10 hours after the report, LinkedIn was yet to correct the glitch.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll continue to follow up and will provide updates.<\/p>\n<p>This goes on to illustrate that even very large tech organisations need to zoom in on how user data is handled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of Hungarian users on LinkedIn wake up to find that their location has changed from Budapest, Hungary to Brisbane, Australia. This was first noticed &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kindsonthegenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}