An unsecured database exposed 4.3 billion LinkedIn-derived records, enabling large-scale phishing and identity-based attacks.

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Weighing privacy rights against access to public data, a Ninth Circuit panel on Thursday wrestled with whether a 1984 law permits LinkedIn to keep its website off limits to a ...

A massive LinkedIn leak reportedly exposed data of 700 million users, making it the second large data dump following a similar episode just months earlier. More than 92% of LinkedIn’s 756 million ...

A couple of years ago, LinkedIn was told by a US federal judge that it can’t block rivals like hiQ Labs from scraping personal data from public profiles. But on Monday, the US Supreme Court threw out ...

The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) recently concluded that scraping is lawful, but ...

A court has ruled that it's legal to scrape publicly available data from LinkedIn, despite the company's claims that this violates user privacy. San Francisco-based start-up hiQ Labs harvests user ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) --- A federal judge signaled Thursday he is unlikely to dismiss LinkedIn’s countersuit against a company that scrapes data from its members’ public profiles to alert employers which ...

A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum. Just days after a yet another data-scraping operation aimed at LinkedIn was discovered, evidence has ...