LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) data breach
In April 2021, LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) suffered a data breach that exposed education levels, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, job titles, names, and social media profiles. The breach affected 125,698,496 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
- April 8, 2021
- Added to this tracker
- October 2, 2021
- Accounts affected
- 125,698,496
- Company domain
- linkedin.com
- Data exposed
- Education levels, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, job titles, names, and social media profiles
Was my information in the LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) breach?
We cannot tell you that from this page. If you had an account with LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) before April 2021, 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 Scraped Data (2021) breach, the exposed data was education levels, email addresses, genders, geographic locations, job titles, names, and social media profiles.
What should I do now?
- Change your password at LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) 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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