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Breach occurred 2021-04-08Verifiedlinkedin.com
What happened
During the first half of 2021, LinkedIn was targeted by attackers who scraped data from hundreds of millions of public profiles and later sold them online. Whilst the scraping did not constitute a data breach nor did it access any personal data not intended to be publicly accessible, the data was still monetised and later broadly circulated in hacking circles. The scraped data contains approximately 400M records with 125M unique email addresses, as well as names, geographic locations, genders and job titles. LinkedIn specifically addresses the incident in their post on An update on report of scraped data.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) data breach occurred on April 8, 2021. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on October 2, 2021.
125,698,496 accounts were affected by the LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) breach exposed the following data types: Education levels, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, Job titles, Names, Social media profiles.
Yes. Have I Been Pwned has verified the LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) breach, meaning there's confirmed evidence the exposed data is genuine and tied to real accounts.
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