Disclosed Apr 8, 20215 years ago125,698,496 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 records, Emails, Location, Employment, Names, Phone numbers |
| Sector | Tech · US |
| Status | Confirmed |
| Check your email | Have I Been Pwned |
Sources
| Source | |
|---|---|
| Have I Been Pwned: LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021)haveibeenpwned.com · Aggregator | Aggregator |
| An update from LinkedInnews.linkedin.com · The organization | The organization |
Notices filed
| Where | Filed | People |
|---|---|---|
| Researchtotal | Apr 8, 2021 | |
| Have I Been Pwnedaccounts in the data | Oct 2, 2021 | 125,698,496 |
Other breaches at LinkedIn
| Breach | Affected | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosed May 21, 2016May 21, 201610 years agoHacking | May 21, 201610 years ago | Hacking | Tech | Confirmed | 165Macct |
| Stolen LinkedIn password hashes posted online; full dump surfaces in 2016Jun 6, 201214 years agoHacking | Jun 6, 201214 years ago | Hacking | Tech | Confirmed | Unknown |
History of this record
- 2026-09-25 · source_type: aggregator to company · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · source_url: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/LinkedInScrape to https://news.linkedin.com/2021/april/an-update-from-linkedin · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · status: disclosed to confirmed · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · verified_by: empty to research · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · verified: 0 to 1 · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · country: empty to US · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · attack: misconfiguration to scraping · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · data_types: ["education","emails","location","employment","names"] to ["education","emails","location","employment","names","phone"] · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · disclosed: 2021-10-02 to 2021-04-08 · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · summary: 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. · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · title: empty to Scraped LinkedIn profile data offered for sale · seed source
- 2026-09-25 · added · backfill source
First seen 2026-09-25 (Have I Been Pwned), confirmed by Research. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.