[ale] unsalted hashes of 6 million linkedin passwords published on the internet

Ron Frazier (ALE) atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Thu Jun 7 13:44:29 EDT 2012


On the latest Security Now podcast, Steve Gibson reported that the unsalted hashes of 6 million linkedin passwords have been leaked to the internet. This is 10% of the entire linkedin user database. Apparently, they are being decrypted at a rapid pace. The presumption is that user names were stolen too. I don't understand all the technical details, but Steve is recommending that everyone immediately change your linkedin password. You might also consider changing that password anywhere else you use it. I suppose that they could use this to break into your linkedin account, but I don't know what else they could do with it. I have an old linkedin account from long ago that I never use, but they still send me emails. I have to go and check the password. Just thought I'd pass it along.

Info here: http://twit.tv/show/security-now/356
Forward into the program to 29:30 to find this part.

More info: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2012/06/06/bad-day-for-linkedin-6-5-million-hashed-passwords-reportedly-leaked-change-yours-now/
http://shiflett.org/blog/2012/jun/leakedin
http://leakedin.org/

Sincerely,

Ron



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