LinkedIn Scraped and Faked Data (2023) - 5,820,276 breached accounts

In November 2023, a post to a popular hacking forum alleged that millions of LinkedIn records had been scraped and leaked. On investigation, the data turned out to be a combination of legitimate data scraped from LinkedIn and email addresses constructed from impacted individuals' names.

accounts addresses breached data email forum hacking hacking forum investigation leaked linkedin names november november 2023 popular records scraped