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8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (ars technica)8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (ars technica)Posted Jun 7, 2012 1:52 UTC (Thu) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)In reply to: 8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (ars technica) by Zizzle Parent article: 8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (ars technica)
> Has there been an official communication from LinkedIn? Members that have accounts associated with the compromised passwords will notice that their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid. […] It is worth noting that the affected members who update their passwords and members whose passwords have not been compromised benefit from the enhanced security we just recently put in place, which includes hashing and salting of our current password databases.
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8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (ars technica) Posted Jun 7, 2012 11:38 UTC (Thu) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link]
On the blog? How professional! They could have easily punctuated their daily "do you know/are you interested in/check out the founder's new book" spams with an acknowledgement of the situation.
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