Jul 14 2021

Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online

Category: Data Breach,data securityDISC @ 10:35 am

Researchers from Cyber News Team have spotted threat actors offering for sale 600 million LinkedIn profiles scraped from the platform, again.

Original post: https://cybernews.com/news/threat-actors-scrape-600-million-linkedin-profiles-and-are-selling-the-data-online-again/

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

Threat actors scrape 600 million LinkedIn profiles and are selling the data online

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