LinkedIn has denied accusations of a data breach. It claimed that the information put up for sale recently was “scraped” from professional networking sites and other websites. This was previously revealed in the “April 2021 scraping update.”
LinkedIn is a well-known professional networking site. It allows users to create business connections, locate potential clients, make connections with other professions, seek jobs, and much more.
The Microsoft-owned corporation is recently hit by a significant data leak. The leak has exposed over 700 million LinkedIn users, making it one of the largest data dumps in the platform’s history. On July 22nd, a hacker listed data from over 700 million LinkedIn users for sale, accompanied by samples showing that the data is accurate and up to date as of June 2021.
“Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale. We want to be clear that this is not a data breach, and no private LinkedIn member data was exposed,” LinkedIn said in a statement.
LinkedIn published the statement after various sources stated that a new breach has exposed the data of over 700 million (92 percent) of its 756 million users. According to sources, the data leak reported as scraped data contains personal info of LinkedIn users. It includes their addresses, phone numbers, salaries, and geolocation data.
Hackers have also leaked the information of 500 million LinkedIn users earlier in April. The data included the users’ full names, phone numbers, email addresses, account numbers, gender information, and links to their social network sites.
