LinkedIn hacked: over six million passwords compromised and published
Professional networking site LinkedIn suffered a major security breach on June 6th, 2012 that resulted in the theft of approximately 6.5 million user passwords. The stolen data was subsequently posted on a hacker website, and while a majority of the passwords were protected with secure hash algorithms, some have been decrypted and published in plain text.
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NYT: LinkedIn security breach could have been prevented with simple security measures
Last week's breach at LinkedIn resulted in the leak of 6.46 million user passwords, but with some basic security measures in place it could have been avoided. The New York Times reports that "on a grading scale of A through F, experts say, LinkedIn, eHarmony and Lastfm.com would get, at best, a 'D' for password security" because the three sites — all of which were hacked last week — only took one step to secure user passwords. The article explains that an inexpensive way to securely...
LinkedIn: 'No email logins have been published' following password leak, law enforcement investigating
LinkedIn has yet to receive any reports of unauthorized account access after 6.5 million user passwords were posted online by hackers, the company said in a blog post today. Although the perpetrators managed to crack and reveal a "small set" of hashed passwords, LinkedIn hasn't seen any evidence indicating that the email addresses tied to those credentials have also been shared.
"To the best of our knowledge, no email logins associated with the passwords have been published" says Director...
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LinkedIn confirms that member passwords have been compromised
Reports started swirling this morning that more than six million users had their account passwords stolen, and now the company has confirmed the security breach with a post on its blog — though the company hasn't yet confirmed how many accounts were compromised.
Affected users will receive an email from LinkedIn with instructions on how to reset their password. This doesn't appear to be the standard password reset procedure, either — any affected user will automatically be locked out of...
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LinkedIn investigating reports that 6.46 million hashed passwords have leaked online (update)
UPDATE: LinkedIn confirms hacking. Read more here.
A user in a Russian forum is claiming to have hacked LinkedIn to the tune of almost 6.5 million account details. The user uploaded 6,458,020 hashed passwords, but no usernames. It's not clear if they managed to download the usernames, but it's likely that both have been downloaded.There is a possibility that this could be a hoax, but several people have said on Twitter that they found their real LinkedIn passwords as hashes on the list. Many...
