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critical severity April 08, 2021 · 1 min read

LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) Data Breach (2021)

If you are a customer of LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021), here’s what’s now in circulation.

During the first half of 2021, LinkedIn was targeted by attackers who scraped data from hundreds of millions of public profiles and later sold them online. Whilst the scraping did not constitute a data breach nor did it access any personal data not intended to be publicly accessible, the data was still monetised and later broadly circulated in hacking circles. The scraped data contains approximately 400M records with 125M unique email addresses, as well as names, geographic locations, genders and job titles. LinkedIn specifically addresses the incident in their post on An update on report of s

LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) Data Breach (2021)

What the free scan actually returns

Sample resultyou@email.comIllustrative — not a real person

Found on people-search siteswe remove these

These listings are live, public, and legal to remove — and removing them is what we do.

value redacted in this sampleage, relatives, address historySpokeo
value redacted in this samplephone, household, property recordsBeenVerified
value redacted in this sample582 companies checked

Found in breach recordsverifiedreported — unverified

Each record is labeled: confirmed breach data, or an attacker’s claim no one has verified.

verifiedvalue redacted in this samplepassword + phone · 2024telecom breach
unverifiedvalue redacted in this sampleclaimed in ransomware listing · 2026leak-site claim

Leaked data cannot be deleted from the internet — anyone claiming otherwise is lying. Broker listings can be removed. We do the second, and show you exactly what to fix from the first.

Were you a LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) customer?
LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021) is one listing. Your email is probably in others.
125.7M accounts were exposed here. Check whether yours is one — and find every other leak tied to the same address, in about 15 seconds. No account, no card.

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Report details & sourcing

Severity Critical contact details only, none of them permanent
Disclosed April 08, 2021
Last reviewed July 22, 2026
Affected 125.7M
Data exposed Education levelsEmail addressesGendersGeographic locationsJob titlesNamesSocial media profiles
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