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LinkedIn says members' data found for sale wasn't a data breach, but scraped from LinkedIn

( April 8, 2021, 20:22 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: LinkedIn said in a statement that it has investigated an alleged set of members' data and found that it's not a data breach and didn't include "private member account data." The company said the dataset is "an aggregation of data from a number of websites and companies" that includes "publicly viewable member profile data that appears to have been scraped from LinkedIn." The company said that "any misuse of our members’ data, such as scraping, violates LinkedIn terms of service."Full statement below:...

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