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LinkedIn Scraped and Faked Data (2023) data breach (2023)

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.

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LinkedIn Scraped and Faked Data (2023)
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19.8M
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Imported from Have I Been Pwned — pending editorial review and translation to French. The summary below is machine-extracted; consult the source for details.

In 2023-11-04, LinkedIn Scraped and Faked Data (2023) was affected by a data breach. Approximately 19,788,753 accounts were exposed. 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.

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  1. haveibeenpwned.comhttps://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#LinkedInScrapedandFakedData(2023)
  2. linkedin.comhttps://linkedin.com

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