117 Million LinkedIn accounts compromised

[Lion Heart 15,041]

A HACKER is advertising what he says is more than one hundred million LinkedIn logins for sale.

The BBC reports that the IDs in question were sourced from a security breach four years ago, although at the time it was thought to be much fewer IDs stolen.

LinkedIn reset the accounts of those it recognised as being compromised, however it has pledged to repeat the move but on a much larger scale.

“We are taking immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of the accounts impacted, and we will contact those members to reset their passwords,” a LinkedIn spokeswoman told the BBC. “We have no indication that this is a result of a new security breach.

“We encourage our members to visit our safety centre to ensure they have two-step verification authentication and to use strong passwords in order to keep their accounts as safe as possible,” she said.”

News site Motherboard said 117 million passwords were being advertised on two hacker sites.

While LinkedIn only had 165 million accounts at the time of the breach, the hack may include people who have logged in through Facebook.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/hacker-selling-117m-linkedin-passwords/news-story/d06d7a67fec5b73111a5369eb3bf6033

[homomo 23,883]

I have nothing on my linkedin  

[venusfly 17,885]

This is why its so important to use a different password on every website  

[Duella Dvil 11,552]

22 minutes ago, LG said:

This is why its so important to use a different password on every website  

I've been cycling slight variations on the same 4 passwords since born this way came out 

It involves dates and the many forms they can take.

[LebaneseDude 6,146]

7 minutes ago, Uncle ARTPOP said:

I've been cycling slight variations on the same 4 passwords since born this way came out 

It involves dates and the many forms they can take.

As long as you don't input your password directly to an attacker or download sketchy software, you're typically fine.

This was negligence on LinkedIn's part. They didn't salt the hashes of the passwords. 

[River 127,310]

I'm connected to Bobby on LinkedIn xD

[venusfly 17,885]

26 minutes ago, Uncle ARTPOP said:

I've been cycling slight variations on the same 4 passwords since born this way came out 

It involves dates and the many forms they can take.

It's important to use different ones on most sites, even if you use one uncrackable password on every site that doesn't matter when the sites get hacked and passwords exposed 

[Duella Dvil 11,552]

2 minutes ago, LG said:

It's important to use different ones on most sites, even if you use one uncrackable password on every site that doesn't matter when the sites get hacked and passwords exposed 

Well they are pretty much all different