LinkedIn's 2021 scraping incident exposed data from 700 million profiles—92% of users—including emails and salaries, fueling targeted phishing attacks against professionals and costing firms millions in recovery. This dataset is 30% larger than the typical corporate leak, but unlike #2 National Public Data, it contained no Social Security numbers, limiting direct financial fraud risk while still enabling sophisticated social engineering at scale.

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