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United States

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Microsoft

Created on 2025-06-15 Unlock My Data Team
Updated on 2025-06-15 Charlotte Leriche

Data Access

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Response time

Under 1 month according to the RGPD

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The access request can only be made via a computer. Once the received data is downloaded, the user has only 72 hours to download them.

Data Breaches

Updated on June 15, 2025

Have I Been Pwned

LinkedIn Scraped and Faked Data (2023)

📅 November 4, 2023

19.8M

accounts

In November 2023, a post to a popular hacking forum alleged that millions of LinkedIn records had been scraped and leaked. On investigation, the data turned out to be a combination of legitimate data scraped from LinkedIn and email addresses constructed from impacted individuals' names.

Compromised data :

Email addressesGendersGeographic locationsJob titlesNamesProfessional skillsSocial media profiles

Verified breach

LinkedIn Scraped Data (2021)

📅 April 8, 2021

125.7M

accounts

During the first half of 2021, LinkedIn was targeted by attackers who scraped data from hundreds of millions of public profiles and later sold them online. Whilst the scraping did not constitute a data breach nor did it access any personal data not intended to be publicly accessible, the data was still monetised and later broadly circulated in hacking circles. The scraped data contains approximately 400M records with 125M unique email addresses, as well as names, geographic locations, genders and job titles. LinkedIn specifically addresses the incident in their post on An update on report of scraped data.

Compromised data :

Education levelsEmail addressesGendersGeographic locationsJob titlesNamesSocial media profiles

Verified breach

📅 May 5, 2012

164.6M

accounts

In May 2016, LinkedIn had 164 million email addresses and passwords exposed. Originally hacked in 2012, the data remained out of sight until being offered for sale on a dark market site 4 years later. The passwords in the breach were stored as SHA1 hashes without salt, the vast majority of which were quickly cracked in the days following the release of the data.

Compromised data :

Email addressesPasswords

Verified breach

Source : Have I Been Pwned

Terms Changes

Policy changes detected by Open Terms Archive

LinkedIn now allows violating content if it is educational or newsworthy

November 7, 2025

LinkedIn now allows otherwise prohibited content if it is educational or newsworthy, including graphic depictions of occupations, war content, or public official statements.

Community Guidelines

LinkedIn shares data with Microsoft and its subsidiaries to train AI models

November 4, 2025

LinkedIn updated its Privacy Policy to expand personal data sharing across Microsoft services, explicitly including GitHub. It now uses profile data, conversations with GenAI features, and member-generated content to train AI models. European users can opt out, while the UK version specifies data use for training Microsoft's AI models including LinkedIn videos.

LinkedIn joins Meta and Google in ban of political advertisement

October 2, 2025

On October 02, 2025, LinkedIn expanded its misleading-content policy to include political advertisements

Community Guidelines

LinkedIn removes hate speech protections for transgender individuals

July 29, 2025

On July 29, 2025, LinkedIn removed “misgendering or deadnaming” from examples of prohibited content in its policy on hateful and derogatory content.

Community Guidelines

LinkedIn's community rules are not translated anymore

May 20, 2022

Since May 20, LinkedIn’s Community rules are only accessible in English, with all other language versions unavailable.

Community Guidelines

Source: Open Terms Archive

Sanctions and transfer policy

Sanction details

LinkedIn has not been sanctioned, but on December 5, 2024, the CNIL imposed a fine of 240,000 euros on the company KASPR, in particular for having collected on LinkedIn the contact details of users who had nevertheless chosen to limit their visibility.

Data transfer policy

Yes

Policy excerpt

We process your information both within the territory of the United States and outside it, and we rely on legal processes to lawfully transfer data across borders.
Learn more. The laws of the countries in which we process data may differ from those of your own country and may offer less protection.

Transfer destination countries

United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, European Economic Area

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