Details from millions of profiles on LinkedIn have been scraped by a Singapore company that creates fake accounts to access non-public information faster than the networking site can remove them, according to a new lawsuit filed in San Francisco.
The complaint filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges Nubela, its Wyoming-based subsidiary Proxycurl and company executives Steven Goh and Bach Le have operated a “vast network of continuously-created fake accounts” to scrape member data from LinkedIn, “registering hundreds if not thousands of new accounts per day.”