Data from around 500 million LinkedIn user profiles has been posted for sale on a website popular with hackers, the company confirmed but denied any data breach.
According to media outlet "Cyber News", the leaked data includes LinkedIn IDs, full names, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, links to other social media profiles and work-related information.
Commenting on the report, LinkedIn denied the data breach and said that the leaked information contains publicly available information.
"We have investigated an alleged set of LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale and have determined that it is actually an aggregation of data from a number of websites and companies. It does include publicly viewable member profile data that appears to have been scraped from LinkedIn. This was not a LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included in what we've been able to review," LinkedIn stated.
There are about 740 million users in LinkedIn, thus two thirds of its user base has been placed for sale online.
