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Hackers, Scrapers & Fakers: What's Really Inside the Latest LinkedIn Dataset

ID: 97371338-e488-5e21-94ec-c38ea7fa11e3

STIX ID: report--97371338-e488-5e21-94ec-c38ea7fa11e3

Feed Name: Troy Hunt – Security Blog

Threat Score
45/100

Date Published: 2023-11-07

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Troy Hunt

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An alleged 2.5M LinkedIn dump was analyzed and found to contain real LinkedIn profile metadata combined with many fabricated email addresses generated by combining profile names with company domains; the dataset appears to be an aggregation of public profile scraping plus synthetic emails rather than a verified internal LinkedIn breach, and was added to Have I Been Pwned as a spam list.

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