Over 700 million LinkedIn users’ personal data leaked, company denies data breach

Updated : Jun 30, 2021 17:55
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Editorji News Desk

Personal data of over 700 million LinkedIn users has reportedly been exposed in a data breach. This amounts to more than 92% of the social media website’s users.

The dataset is said to include phone numbers, physical addresses, geolocation data, and inferred salaries, but not passwords.

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According to a 9to5Google report, the hacker says that the data was obtained by exploiting the LinkedIn API to harvest information that people upload to the site.

The dataset is currently on sale on the dark web.

LinkedIn, which is owned by Microsoft, has said in a statement that this is not a data breach and no private LinkedIn member data was exposed.

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