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Microsoft Corp.’s professional networking site said based on an investigation that some LinkedIn data, including publicly available memberships, had been deleted and put up for sale.
The incident was not a breach of the data and no private member account data from the platform was included, LinkedIn said in a blog post on Thursday, adding that the information sold is a collection of data from a number of websites and companies.
LinkedIn declined to provide further details about the incident, including the number of users affected.
Some LinkedIn data, including a member available to members of the public, has been deleted and put up for sale, the Microsoft Corp. professional networking website said based on an investigation. (iStock)
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CyberNews reported on April 6 that an archive of data scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles had been put up for sale on a popular hacker forum.
Earlier this week, Facebook Inc said that ‘malicious actors’ obtained data before September 2019 by ‘scraping’ profiles using a vulnerability in the platform’s tool to sync contacts.
The world’s largest social network has not notified more than 530 million users whose information was obtained through abuse and was recently released in a database, and has no plans to do so, a spokesman for the company said Wednesday.
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Social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, have been under fire over how they handle users’ privacy on their platforms.
In 2019, Facebook reached a major settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over its investigation into allegations that the company misused user data.