Over Six Million LinkedIn Passwords Stolen
A hacker bragged of stealing 6.46 million passwords in a Russian forum and LinkedIn has confirmed that there was a data breach. Now what?
News was swirling around the Internet this morning about postings in a Russian forum indicating that over six million passwords had been obtained by an unauthorized user. After investigating, LinkedIn has confirmed in a blog post that it does believe that the passwords were compromised and that it was going to contact affected users with steps to protect their accounts. LinkedIn Directer Vicente Silveira wrote: "We are continuing to investigate this situation and here is what we are pursuing as far as next steps for the compromised accounts: The blog post goes on to explain that the stolen password data was partially encrypted via "hashing." Hashing is the practice of using an algorithm to alter values in a database by some known function…
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