HighBreachHave I Been Pwned — public breach catalog· 7 Nov 2023

LinkedIn Scraped and Faked Data (2023) — 19.8M accounts

Severity: High · Kind: Data breach

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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.

Breach facts

Accounts affected: 19,788,753
Verified: Yes
Sensitive: No
Domain: linkedin.com
Data exposed: Email addressesGendersGeographic locationsJob titlesNamesProfessional skillsSocial media profiles

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