Data belonging to 500 million LinkedIn users found for sale on hacker marketplace

The scraped data of over 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put up for sale on a popular hacker forum.

The post's author has leaked two million records already as proof of the existence of the much larger data trove, as reported by Cybernews. The data, which is spread across four files, is said to include full names, email addresses, phone numbers, and information related to their place of work.

So far, no precise figure has been set for the data, although the user has said that interested parties should expect to pay a four-digit sum, likely in bitcoin. While it has been confirmed that the data was scraped from LinkedIn, it's unclear whether this is a new data breach or if the data has been taken from previous LinkedIn breaches.