Its possible. I'd say its very unlikely though. But that doesn't explain old no-longer-existing hotmail addresses. My point is that there are many cases which a

Its possible. I'd say its very unlikely though. But that doesn't explain old no-longer-existing hotmail addresses. My point is that there are many cases which are incredibly unlikely to have gotten into linkedin's database legitimately. I mean, sure, it could have very well been that they tricked me somehow. Likely in fact (more likely than them knowing some kind of cross site scripting vulnerability in gmail). But in my opinion that is just as illegitimate scum tactics as hacking my inbox and IMHO should be illegal. I do know that I did NOT authorise this action, whatever it may be.