LinkedIn says some user data scraped and posted for sale


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(Reuters) -Some LinkedIn data, including publicly viewable member profile, has been scraped and posted for sale, Microsoft Corp's professional networking site said based on an investigation.

The incident was not a data breach and no private member account data from the platform was included, LinkedIn said in a blog post https://bit.ly/3uB4nEy on Thursday, adding that the information on sale is a collection of data from a number of websites and companies.

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