Bottom line: LinkedIn has secured a court order blocking mass scraping of user data by ProAPIs and Netswift, ensuring the integrity of its user data.
What's happening: ProAPIs, a company based in the United States, and Netswift, a joint business operator, were found guilty of violating LinkedIn's terms of service by scraping millions of LinkedIn user profiles.
What to do: Security leaders should review and update their incident response plans to include potential data scraping attacks, and ensure that their teams are trained to detect and respond to such threats.