PALO ALTO — Spambots have infiltrated LinkedIn, and the professional networking site is fighting back.
The Mountain View–based company filed suit in the Northern District of California on Monday alleging that unknown intruders used automated software programs to create thousands of fake LinkedIn accounts and scrape data from legitimate user profile pages. The company, which believes the abuse began in May 2013, has nearly 260 million members.
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