---
id: 7553
title: "LinkedIn Data Breach: 66 Million Scraped Records Exposed in an Unsecured Database"
source_domain: hackenproof.com
source_url: "https://hackenproof.com/blog/linkedin-data-scraping-breach-66-million-records"
published_at: "2018-12-06T14:37:00Z"
tags: ["phishing", "privacy", "data-breach", "mongodb", "have-i-been-pwned", "linkedin", "web-scraping"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/7553"
lang: en
---

# LinkedIn Data Breach: 66 Million Scraped Records Exposed in an Unsecured Database

## Summary

An open MongoDB database exposed 66 million scraped LinkedIn profiles—what was taken, whether scraping like this is legal, and how it compares to LinkedIn's larger 2021 incident.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** hackenproof.com
- **Published:** 2018-12-06T14:37:00Z
- **Original:** https://hackenproof.com/blog/linkedin-data-scraping-breach-66-million-records
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/7553