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Data of LinkedIn’s 500 million users ‘extracted and posted for sale’

LinkedIn has slightly over half a billion profiles. [File, Standard]

Some LinkedIn data, including publicly viewable member profile, has been extracted and posted for sale, Microsoft Corp’s professional networking site said based on an investigation.

The incident was not a data breach and no private member account data from the platform was included, LinkedIn said in a blog post on Thursday, adding that the information on sale is a collection of data from a number of websites and companies.

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