California court Civil complaint filed seeking a permanent injunction deletion of scraped data and damages on Would bar further scraping and require deletion of allegedly scraped
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LinkedIn filed a California lawsuit against ProAPIs Inc. and Rehmat Alam, escalating a cyber-related legal dispute over alleged scraping of member data through more than a million fake accounts. The complaint seeks a permanent injunction, deletion of scraped data, and damages. It also alleges that the defendants sold access to iScraper API and used invalid credit cards to obtain Premium accounts.
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06.10.2025 17:54 2 articles · 7mo ago
LinkedIn files California lawsuit against ProAPIs
Legal Policy Action UpdateLinkedIn filed a California civil complaint against ProAPIs Inc. and founder/CTO Rehmat Alam, alleging that more than a million fake accounts were used to scrape LinkedIn member data, that access to iScraper API was sold as a real-time LinkedIn data fetcher, and that invalid credit cards were used to obtain Premium LinkedIn accounts. LinkedIn also named Pakistan-based technical enabler Netswift and is seeking a permanent injunction, deletion of scraped data, and damages.
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- LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data — www.bleepingcomputer.com — 06.10.2025 17:54
- LinkedIn sues ProAPIs for using 1M fake accounts to scrape user data — www.bleepingcomputer.com — 06.10.2025 17:54