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Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked – change yours now

15 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/bad-day-for-linkedin-6-5-million-hashed-passwords-reportedly-leaked-%E2%80%93-change-yours-now.158161/

Prime_Coder
Prime_Coder Original post #1
Jun 6, 2012 at 7:59 PM
Millions of passwords are posted on a Russian hacker website, and there are indications that many LinkedIn users in danger.

Source : Bad day for LinkedIn: 6.5 million hashed passwords reportedly leaked – change yours now

LinkedIn is home to more than 150 million users, suggesting the breach is limited to less than 10% of the professional social network’s userbase, but it will still affect a huge number of users.
RCuber
RCuber #2
Jun 6, 2012 at 8:11 PM
changed..
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fz8975 #3
Jun 6, 2012 at 8:29 PM
thanks for the info
changed ;)
yashthedude
Jun 6, 2012 at 8:33 PM
Yeh thank you buddy

Changed that password
MetalheadGautham
Jun 7, 2012 at 7:30 AM
Any link to the list of leaked passwords ?
abhidev
abhidev #6
Jun 7, 2012 at 12:22 PM
changed...
amjath
amjath #8
Jun 7, 2012 at 4:54 PM
^there are still many idiots with weak passwords, ROFL @the passwords from the link
reniarahim1
Jun 7, 2012 at 5:16 PM
funny passwords in the link...changed the password btw.
skeletor
skeletor #10
Jun 7, 2012 at 5:49 PM
hmm they were not salted. :|
MetalheadGautham
Jun 7, 2012 at 6:20 PM
Anybody worth something will use BCrypt to store passwords.
d6bmg
d6bmg #12
Jun 7, 2012 at 9:18 PM
Thankfully I've no account there. :)
Desmond
Desmond #13
Jun 8, 2012 at 1:03 PM
In wake of the password leak, Poul-Henning Kamp, the creator of the MD5crypt password scrambling tool says that this tool is no longer safe and urges people to move on to another tool.

Md5crypt Password scrambler is no longer considered safe by author — PHKs Bikeshed
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Vyom
Vyom #14
Jun 10, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Thankfully I've no account there. :)

Do you have account in last.fm? Then change that too.

Everyone: I got a mail yesterday in Spam folder from last.fm to change my password. It turns out, it was not spam, and they might as well be under theft of password too. So change your last.fm passwords also.

Last.fm warns users of password leak
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mrintech #15
Jun 10, 2012 at 2:49 PM
TFS :)

No Account there :p