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Facebook/LinkedIn are not implicated in the breach at all; it was some random third-party data enrichment service. The Facebook/LinkedIn in the title refers to the fact that people's FB/LI accounts were one of the fields in the database. So were their Github, and basically any other public-facing account that these scrapers can gather.



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