LinkedIn, the popular professional networking platform, is denying that the data of its 700 million users was leaked in a hacking attempt, stating that the private member data was not exposed.
Announced by the alleged hacker on June 22, data was offered for sale, according to a report by RestorePrivacy. The report further stated that the data contained full names, phone numbers, physical addresses, email addresses, LinkedIn user name, profile URL, geolocation records, genders, social media accounts, other usernames, and personal and professional experience or background.
“Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale. We want to be clear that this is not a data breach and no private LinkedIn member data was exposed,” LinkedIn said on their website.
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“Our initial investigation has found that this data was scraped from LinkedIn and other various websites and includes the same data reported earlier this year in our April 2021 scraping update,” the statement posted on Tuesday further said.
LinkedIn released a statement along with a link to the page where it listed prohibited software and extensions, stating that it doesn’t permit the use of any third-party software, including browsers extensions, browser plug-ins, bots, and crawlers.
“In order to keep our members’ data safe, we’re constantly working to improve our technical measures and defenses against the operation of scraping, automation, and other tools that abuse LinkedIn’s platform,” the company said.
This comes after a similar LinkedIn data leak in April this year, which affected over 500 million accounts. The data became publicly viewable, including full names, phone numbers, email addresses, and workplace information.
