Breachesby GlyphDisclosed Apr 8, 2021125,698,496 accountsConfirmed
Scraped LinkedIn profile data offered for sale
LinkedIn said a dataset posted for sale was an aggregation of publicly viewable member profile data scraped from LinkedIn and other sites, not a breach of private data. A larger set of about 700 million records surfaced in June 2021.
What is known
| People affected | 125,698,496 (accounts in the leaked data, per Have I Been Pwned) |
|---|---|
| Disclosed | Apr 8, 2021 |
| Happened | Apr 8, 2021 |
| Attack | Scraping |
| Data exposed | Education recordsEmailsLocationEmploymentNamesPhone numbers |
| Sector | Tech · US |
| Status | Confirmed |
| Check your email | Have I Been Pwned |
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Other breaches at LinkedIn
History of this record
aggregator to companyby seedSource
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/LinkedInScrape to https://news.linkedin.com/2021/april/an-update-from-linkedinby seedSource
disclosed to confirmedby seedSource
empty to researchby seedSource
0 to 1by seedSource
empty to USby seedSource
misconfiguration to scrapingby seedSource
["education","emails","location","employment","names"] to ["education","emails","location","employment","names","phone"]by seedSource
2021-10-02 to 2021-04-08by seedSource
During the first half of 2021, LinkedIn was targeted by attackers who scraped data from hundreds of millions of public profiles and later sold them online . Whilst the scraping did not constitute a data breach nor did it access any personal to LinkedIn said a dataset posted for sale was an aggregation of publicly viewable member profile data scraped from LinkedIn and other sites, not a breach of private data. A larger set of about 700 million records surfaced in June 2021.by seedSource
empty to Scraped LinkedIn profile data offered for saleby seedSource
First recordedby backfillSource
First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned), confirmed by Research. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.