LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021)
What was exposed
Education levelsEmail addressesGendersGeographic locationsJob titlesNamesSocial media profiles
What to do if you were affected
- Expect more phishing and spam at this address. Treat messages that reference this company with extra caution.
- Be wary of targeted scams that use your personal details to sound convincing.
Details
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 .
Frequently asked questions
What is the LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) data breach?
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...
When did the data breach happen?
This data breach occurred around April 2021.
How many accounts were affected?
Around 125,698,496 accounts were affected.
What information was exposed?
Exposed data included Education levels, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, Job titles, Names and Social media profiles.
What should I do if I was affected?
Expect more phishing and spam at this address. Treat messages that reference this company with extra caution. Be wary of targeted scams that use your personal details to sound convincing.
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