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Less than a week after personal information from a half-billion scraped Facebook profiles were leaked to the digital underworld, the world’s largest professional network seems to have suffered a similar fate. It would appear that, like Facebook, approximately 500 million scraped LinkedIn profiles are now being sold on the dark web to the highest bidder.
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This story was originally broken earlier this week by Cyber News, whose staff discovered the huge, illicit cache in the course of online research. LinkedIn has denied that its systems were breached. The data, which is reportedlybeing sold on a popular underground forum, is said to include LinkedIn IDs, full names, phone numbers, email addresses, and genders, as well as links to the profiles and other associated social media profiles. It does not appear to include account credentials or financial information.