LinkedIn Data Breach 2021

[Bapun Raz]

• Personal data from 500 million LinkedIn users has been scraped and is reportedly for sale on a hacking forum.
• LinkedIn said it's investigating and confirmed that the dataset includes scraped data from its site.
• The news comes after personal data from 533 million Facebook users was found to be exposed.

Hackers scraped data from 500 million LinkedIn users - about two-thirds of the platform's userbase - and have posted it for sale online

LinkedIn said "the posted dataset appears to include publicly viewable information that was scraped from LinkedIn," and it is investigating.

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[Bapun Raz]

We have investigated an alleged set of LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale and have determined that it is actually an aggregation of data from a number of websites and companies. It does include publicly viewable member profile data that appears to have been scraped from LinkedIn. This was not a LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included in what we’ve been able to review.

An update on report of scraped data