LinkedIn data breach
In May 2012, LinkedIn suffered a data breach that exposed email addresses and passwords. The breach affected 164,611,595 accounts. If you had an account there, change your password there, never reuse it anywhere else, and check your email address with the free scan.
- Breach date
- May 5, 2012
- Added to this tracker
- May 21, 2016
- Accounts affected
- 164,611,595
- Company domain
- linkedin.com
- Data exposed
- Email addresses and passwords
Was my information in the LinkedIn breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with LinkedIn before May 2012, your information may have been included. The free Ghost Delete scan checks your email address against known data breaches, so run it to see whether your address shows up.
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What data was exposed?
In the LinkedIn breach, the exposed data was email addresses and passwords.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at LinkedIn right away, and anywhere else you reused it.
- Never reuse passwords: give every account a unique password.
- Watch for phishing emails and messages that use the exposed data to look convincing, and go to the site directly instead of clicking links.
- Run the free breach scan to check your email address against other breaches.
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