If You Use LinkedIn, Change Your Password
Summary: An archive reportedly containing the hashed passwords of more than six million LinkedIn accounts circulated online, and LinkedIn initially said it could not confirm any breach before publishing a blog post acknowledging that some compromised passwords corresponded to LinkedIn accounts. Affected members would find their passwords no longer worked and would receive an email with reset instructions, with LinkedIn stating the emails would contain no links.
Bottom line: The archive touched a small subset of LinkedIn's 140 million-plus users, and the source notes that anyone who reused that password elsewhere needed to change it there too - the exposure did not stop at LinkedIn's login page.
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