LinkedIn hacked, Over 6 million passwords compromised
Thursday, June 07, 2012Omoba
LinkedIn on
Wednesday confirmed that at least some passwords compromised in a major security
breach correspond to LinkedIn accounts. Vicente Silveira,
Director at LinkedIn, confirmed the hack on the company's blog Wednesday
afternoon and outlined steps that LinkedIn is taking to deal with the
situation. He wrote that those with compromised passwords will notice that
their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid.
Silveira added that
owners of compromised accounts will receive an email from LinkedIn with
instructions on how to reset their passwords. These owners then will get a
second email from LinkedIn customer support that explains the situation at
greater length.
Graham Cluley, a consultant with U.K. Web
security company Sophos, warned that LinkedIn users should be careful
about malicious email generated around the incident. The fear is that people,
after hearing about the incident, would be tricked into clicking on links in
those emails. Instead of getting to the real LinkedIn site to change a
password, it would go to a scammer, who can then collect the information and
use it for criminal activities.
LinkedIn said its emails will not include any
links.
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