Linkedin has been breached a lot over time.

But I have such low faith in the platform that I would readily believe that once they think you're not going to continue adding value, they find unpleasant ways to extract the last bit of value that they reserve only for "ex"-users.

> Linkedin has been breached a lot over time.

Yeah but the OP got spam within hours. That would be pretty unlikely to have coincided with a breach.

But LinkedIn probably sold the data, they have a dark pattern maze of privacy settings and most default to ON.