
LinkedIn Scraped and Faked Data (2023)
What Happened
In November 2023, a post to a popular hacking forum alleged that millions of LinkedIn records had been scraped and leaked. On investigation, the data turned out to be a combination of legitimate data scraped from LinkedIn and email addresses constructed from impacted individuals' names.
Compromised Data
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Affected Accounts:
19.8 million
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Breach Occurred:
November 2023
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Added to HIBP:
7 Nov 2023
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