Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Millions of LinkedIn passwords have been compromised

Be sure to change your LinkedIn password immediately. A hacker has supposedly compromised millions of LinkedIn passwords. As a reminder: make sure you never use the same password on multiple accounts!

A user in a Russian forum says that he has hacked and uploaded almost 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords, according to The Verge. Though his claim has yet to be confirmed, Twitter users are already reporting that they've found their hashed LinkedIn passwords on the list, security expert Per Thorsheim said.

You can read more on CNET.

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