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LinkedIn Breach - Dozy Van - 05-23-2016
In 2012, LinkedIn was the victim of an unauthorized access and disclosure of some members' passwords. At the time, our immediate response included a mandatory password reset for all accounts we believed were compromised as a result of the unauthorized disclosure. Additionally, we advised all members of LinkedIn to change their passwords as a matter of best practice.
Yesterday, we became aware of an additional set of data that had just been released that claims to be email and hashed password combinations of more than 100 million LinkedIn members from that same theft in 2012. We are taking immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of the accounts impacted, and we will contact those members to reset their passwords. We have no indication that this is as a result of a new security breach
https://blog.linkedin.com/2016/05/18/protecting-our-members
RE: LinkedIn Breach - Dyme - 05-23-2016
So where has this data been released exactly?? Just curious...
RE: LinkedIn Breach - Oni - 05-23-2016
(05-23-2016, 02:41 AM)Dyme Wrote: So where has this data been released exactly?? Just curious...
Apparently it's up for sale:
http://thehackernews.com/2016/05/linkedin-account-hack.html
RE: LinkedIn Breach - mothered - 05-23-2016
Due to It's previous compromisation, I suppose It was just a matter of time before something similar came about.
Thanks Dozy Van, any news pertaining to computational security Is of Interest.
RE: LinkedIn Breach - Bish0pQ - 05-23-2016
Luckily I don't own a LinkedIn account, pretty stupid that they didn't apply any patches to prevent it. Certainly because the security should have improved since 2012. I would expect that a big site as LinkedIn would update their security, certainly when it shows flaws.