Security News > 2021 > July > LinkedIn’s 1.2B Data-Scrape Victims Already Being Targeted by Attackers

The latest data scrape was discovered this week when threat actors posted the personal data contained in 700 million LinkedIn user profiles in the RaidForums underground market.

This latest data scrape follows an April operation which exposed 500 million LinkedIn users.

Yesterday, a database filled with the personal information of 88,000 U.S. business owners gleaned from the latest LinkedIn data scrape was shared in RaidForum, which the poster said specifically isolated U.S. business owners who have changed jobs over the past 90 days, CyberNews reported.

"We want to be clear that this is not a data breach and no private LinkedIn member data was exposed."

"Data scraping is the process of extracting data from websites without the explicit permission of the individual whose data is being scraped," Tom Kelly, president and CEO of IDX, explained to Threatpost.

The worst-case scenario is that these massive troves of data are being aggregated and used by threat actors to make their attacks more personalized and potent, which is what appears to be happening to the lifted LinkedIn profile data of those 88,000 business owners whose data was just released into the cybercrime ecosystem.

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https://threatpost.com/linkedin-data-scrape-victims-targeted-attackers/167473/