{"id":40463,"date":"2021-04-09T11:18:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T08:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40463"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:13:19","slug":"database-of-500-million-linkedin-users-data-put-up-for-sale-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/database-of-500-million-linkedin-users-data-put-up-for-sale-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Database of 500 million LinkedIn users&#8217; data put up for sale online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/cybernews.com\/news\/stolen-data-of-500-million-linkedin-users-being-sold-online-2-million-leaked-as-proof-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cyber News<\/a> uncovered on a hacker forum a database containing data for 500 million LinkedIn users. A spokesperson for the service confirmed the existence of data scraped from the platform, but the company stressed that the information is publicly available, and that the database includes data from a number of sites.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhile we are still examining this issue, the published database apparently includes publicly available information obtained from LinkedIn, in combination with data aggregated from other websites or companies,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/insider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Insider<\/a>, a LinkedIn representative.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The social network also issued a statement, emphasising that the incident is not a LinkedIn data breach, and that private account data of the service&#8217;s users did not make it into the database.<\/p>\n<p>The database itself contains names, email addresses, phone numbers, job information, gender, and other details.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cyber News, the hacker valued the full database at a four-figure sum, with payment reportedly in bitcoins.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on one hacker forum, personal data of more than 533 million Facebook users was published.<\/p>\n<p>For more on how the personal data black market operates, read ForkLog&#8217;s exclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Cyber News uncovered on a hacker forum a database containing data for 500 million LinkedIn users. A spokesperson for the service confirmed the existence of data scraped from the platform, but the company stressed that the information is publicly available, and that the database includes data from a number of sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1829,1523],"class_list":["post-40463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-database","tag-linkedin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40465,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40463\/revisions\/40465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}