More than 700M LinkedIn Users Data for Sale

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29. June 2021

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Cybercriminals are selling the data of 700 million LinkedIn users on a hacking forum. A very similar selling occurred in April, when the data of around 500 million LinkedIn members was marketed on a hacking platform, according to Threat Post. 

Security experts analyzed data extracted from free samples provided by hackers and discovered email addresses, gender, full names, industry information, and even phone numbers. They believe the data was obtained via scraping public LinkedIn profiles since this was the technique employed in the April sale. 

The hacker community where the advertisement was posted is called RaidForums, and the cybercriminal who posted it goes by the name of “GOD User TomLiner.” According to experts at Privacy Sharks, the proof is provided by a sample of one million records. 

According to Privacy Shark’s blog

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