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

Email addresses
Genders
Geographic locations
Job titles
Names
Professional skills
Social media profiles

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Breach Overview

  • Affected Accounts:

    19.8 million

  • Breach Occurred:

    November 2023

  • Added to HIBP:

    7 Nov 2023

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