Published July 16, 2021
Andrew Hutchinson
Content and Social Media Manager
Over the past few months, there have been various reports of significant LinkedIn data hacks, with huge databases of user info being sold on the dark web, available to the highest bidder.
Back in April, Cyber News reported that personal data scraped from 500 million LinkedIn users was being made available for sale on various hacking forums, while just last month, another set, reportedly incorporating info from 700 million LinkedIn profiles, also became available online.
In each case, LinkedIn has denied that these indicate a breach of its security, instead pointing to 'data scraping' as the culprit, the (mostly legal) process of gathering publicly available info from platforms, at scale, in order to build larger data sets by incorporating that material with other sources.