Based on an investigation, Microsoft’s professional networking site said that some LinkedIn info, including publicly viewable member profiles, had been scraped and sold.
An archive of data scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles was put up for sale on a prominent hacker website, according to CyberNews.
LinkedIn said in a blog post that the incident was not a data breach and that no private member account data from the platform was used, and that the information on sale was a compilation of data from a variety of websites and businesses.
LinkedIn refused to include additional information about the incident, such as the number of users who were affected.
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