Security News > 2021 > July > 600 million LinkedIn members scraped, data offered up for sale on hacker forum
A data set including information from 600 million LinkedIn users showed up for sale on a hacker forum this week.
That's the third time in four months that scraped data from the networking site has been offered up for sale, according to a report from CyberNews.
SEE: Data scraped from 500 million LinkedIn users found for sale online.
People affected by a data breach have some legal recourse against the company that suffered the data breach, but the rules about data scraping are not as clear-cut.
LinkedIn lost the case when the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that data that is publicly available is not protected by the CFAA. TechRepublic contacted LinkedIn for a comment on the latest set of scraped data.
In response to another scraped dataset that showed up in June, LinkedIn said that no private data had been exposed.