Overview

• LinkedIn filed suit in California against ProAPIs Inc., naming founder and CTO Rehmat Alam and Pakistan-based Netswift as defendants.
• Court filings say the defendants ran a continuously created network of fake LinkedIn accounts numbering in the millions to scrape member, company, and school data.
• The complaint alleges sales of real-time LinkedIn data via an iScraper API priced up to $15,000 per month for throughput of 150 requests per second.
• LinkedIn says the operation accessed member-only information without permission, misused LinkedIn trademarks, and used invalid credit cards to obtain Premium accounts.
• LinkedIn seeks a permanent injunction, deletion of harvested data, and damages, while public status information indicates the iScraper service remains reachable with brief outages noted.