"Data from 500M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale Online"

In yet another incident of threat actors scraping data from public profiles and slinging it online for potential cybercriminal misuse, researchers have found that personal data from more than 500 million LinkedIn users have been posted for sale online.  The personal data for sale includes LinkedIn IDs, full names, professional titles, email addresses, phone numbers, and personally identifiable information (PII).  The LinkedIn incident comes on the heels of a substantial leak of personal data from more than 533 million Facebook users last weekend.  The researchers stated that the leaked data contains no payment card details and no passwords, so it is less valuable to attackers and will not sell for much on the Dark Web.  LinkedIn officials confirmed that the platform's data was included in the database and stated that it was not due to a breach of its system but instead was scraped from the LinkedIn site.

Threatpost reports: "Data from 500M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale Online"