LinkedIn has allegedly had personal information scraped from more than 500 million accounts. The entire data trove was not posted, but hackers selling the data posted 2 million records as proof that they had the information. The scraped data includes full names, email addresses, phone numbers, workplace information and more.
UPDATE: 090421 - LinkedIn said it did not experience a data breach.
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