Got a profile on LinkedIn? You just might need to reset your
password. LinkedIn announced this morning that another data set from a
hack suffered in 2012 which contains over 100 million LinkedIn members’ emails
and passwords, has now been released.In 2012, hackers stole some 6.5 million encrypted
passwords fro LinkedIn and posted them onto a Russian hacker forum.
If you had
a LinkedIn account since 2012 and you have not changed the password, you should
be worried. I f the password has been used on other sites as well you should
also be worried. But even if you don’t fall under any of these categories, it
is advisable that you change it anyway not just on LinkedIn but on any other
site where you use the same password.
LinkedIn in a statement on its website says it is taking immediate steps to invalidate the
passwords of the accounts impacted, and we will contact those members to reset
their passwords
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