LinkedIn User Data Leak Fuels LinkedIn's Anti-Scraping Position
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 Last week, the Italian data protection authority (the “GPDP”) opened an investigation after reports that a dataset allegedly containing data compiled from 500 million LinkedIn profiles and other websites was available for sale on a hacker forum. Apparently, this data represents more than two-thirds of LinkedIn’s estimated 740 million users. The hacker reportedly posted approximately two million records visibly online as evidence of the dataset, and ...
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