LinkedIn employees discovered a mysterious list of around 500 names over the weekend. On Monday, workers said those on the list were laid off. -    

Some LinkedIn workers worried they were about to be laid off after a mysterious internal list of about 500 employees was discovered to be accessible by anyone at the company.

Hours later, workers who had seen their name on the list had their worst fears confirmed — they were laid off, two LinkedIn workers told Insider.

A LinkedIn worker posted Sunday night on Blind, an anonymous job-posting site that verifies workers' employment using their company email, about a potential "kill list," as the worker described it, of employees that would be impacted by an upcoming layoffs.

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