3 large databases containing 66,147,856 unique records were found by security researchers. Data was apparently scraped from various sources and left to gather dust. The records are very business-centric, with one containing full name, email, listed location, employment history, and skills. This sounds very much like the information you see on a public facing Linkedin profile. The big problem is that even if the ones doing the data scraping had no harmful intentions, that may not apply to anybody finding the treasure trove. There’s no real way to know how many bad actors got their hands on it first.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2018/12/data-scraping-treasure/