LinkedIn 6.5 million passwor may have been hacked

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Close to 6.5 million passwords for the online professional network LinkedIn have been leaked by hackers, it has been reported.

LinkedIn has said it is “looking into” claims that passwords have been stolen from the site, which has more than 150 million users worldwide. Reports suggest that personal email addresses could be included in the stolen data, which will cause severe problems for users who employ the same password over a number of sites online.

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/6-5-million...%E2%80%99.html

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If any of you change your password always remember to make 13 characters or longer and always use special characters, numbers, and upper and lower case letters.

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This news is all over the net. Even Matt Cutts chimed in on Twitter:

Use the same password on LinkedIn & Gmail? I'd change both immediately. http://www.techmeme.com/120606/p13#a12 … And turn on two-factor authentication on Gmail!

http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/210411478921117697

Update from LinkedIn:

We want to provide you with an update on this morning’s reports of stolen passwords. We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts. We are continuing to investigate this situation and here is what we are pursuing as far as next steps for the compromised accounts:

Continued: Linkedin Blog >> An Update on LinkedIn Member Passwords Compromised