A refined database of 88,000 U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum. The database includes full names, email addresses, work details and any other information publicly listed on LinkedIn. LinkedIn acknowledges the abuse of LinkedIn data, but points out that it s not technically a breach since the information was public. LinkedIn says it is actively working to protect their members data and that no private LinkedIn member data was exposed. The latest data scrape follows an April operation which exposed 500 million LinkedIn users.
Source: https://threatpost.com/linkedin-data-scrape-victims-targeted-attackers/167473/