Hacker behind LinkedIn scraping did it "for fun"

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Hacker behind LinkedIn scraping did it "for fun"
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Hacker behind LinkedIn scraping did it "for fun"

'Tom Liner' compromised LinkedIn's API to create the massive database

The individual thought to be behind last month's LinkedIn data scraping incident claims he created the 700 million LinkedIn-user database after hacking the social networking platform's API. BBC News...

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