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After Facebook, LinkedIn now faces massive 500 Million users' data leak

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While people are yet to digest the huge Facebook data leak of 533 million users, Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn is now facing a massive data leak of 500 million users that is allegedly being sold online. An archive with data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample.