“If you’re a LinkedIn user, do yourself a favor and change your password right now — according to a new report from Dagens IT, nearly 6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords were dumped onto a Russian hacker forum.
The news comes right on the heels of yet another user security kerfuffle, as the most recent LinkedIn for iOS update was found to transmit users’ meeting notes back to LinkedIn servers without their permission.
Of the millions of passwords dumped, Dagen IT reports that nearly 300,000 of them have been decrypted so far and that number seems sure to grow as users spread that hefty file around.”
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