Was I in the LinkedIn (2021) data scrape?
Data about 125,698,496 users was collected from LinkedIn, a professional social network, in April 2021. It included email addresses, education levels, genders and general locations and 3 other kinds of detail. If you had an account there by April 2021, check your address below to see whether it is one of them.
Breach record last updated . Steps read from the government pages at the foot of this page.
What happened?
In the first half of 2021, attackers collected data from a huge number of public LinkedIn profiles and later sold it. This was scraping rather than a breach, and it reached no data meant to be private. The data was still sold and widely shared among hackers, with email addresses, names, job titles, genders and locations. LinkedIn published a statement on it.
- Organisation
- LinkedIn, a professional social network (linkedin.com)
- When it happened
- April 2021
- Added to monitored breach databases
- 2 October 2021
- Accounts in the data
- 125,698,496
- What was exposed
- email addresses, education levels, genders, general locations, job titles, names and social media profiles
The breach record cites a public report on news.linkedin.com.
What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?
- Your email addressemail addresses
Expect messages that look like they come from this service or another one you use, written to get you to click a link or sign in on a fake page.
- Other detailseducation levels, genders, general locations, job titles, names and social media profiles
On their own these carry less risk, but they make a scam message sound more personal.
What should I do now?
In this order, for what this data scrape exposed.
1. Expect phishing
- Be wary of messages that urge you to act fast, ask for personal details, or link to an address that is slightly off.
- If a message might be genuine, do not use its links or phone numbers. Go to the site by typing its address yourself.
Is my address in it?
Enter your email address. We check that one address against monitored breach databases and show which breaches list it and what each exposed.
No account needed. We keep the address you check, when, and how many breach records it was found in, to prevent abuse, until you ask us to delete it. Privacy
Where does this come from?
- The breach record in monitored breach databases: dates, account count and what was exposed. What happened is in our own words.Read 14 October 2026
- CISA: Recognize and report phishingRead 14 October 2026
- Get Cyber Safe (Government of Canada): Fact sheet on phishingRead 14 October 2026