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LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by woshang to c/technology
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The same threat actor has leaked larger amounts of data from LinkedIn dated 2023. They claim this new data contains 35M lines and is 12 GB uncompressed.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If it's any consolation, LinkedIn is notoriously terrible at this, so your data was probably out there as early as 2016 and almost certainly after 2021, when they managed to get hit with similar breaches twice in the same year.