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Data from 500M LinkedIn users has been scrape and posted online for sale (goodayfriends.com)
47 points by shoto_io on April 11, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


It is kinda annoying that all this data is probably real easy to get for a black hatter, but for me to see what data is exposed is completely off the table - even if I knew where to buy (I don't), and had the money to pay (Probably not), I have no idea what the laws are and don't want to play the game.

My email is on HIBP and haveibeenzucked, so I know that at least some stuff has been dumped, but it really matters to me know exactly what - on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.

Also, just how widespread do these dumps make it? Would it be on file-share sites? On Tor? Is newsgroups still a thing? Would this likely make its way to a HR or interviewer at big corp, or just to [Insert country here] hackers?


Uh, doesn’t Google do this literally every day? And Bing, and....

This is public facing data. Aggregating it is not a security breach.




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