You can make your own wild guess at what happened. Wed 14.25 EDT Last modified on Tue 12.25 EST A hacker claiming to have the log in details of millions of LinkedIn users is advertising the data for sale online.
So, according to my wild guess, there must be more information stolen than they tell us but LinkedIn judged that the only information that threatens themselves were those old passwords so they finally invalidated them (what they should have done back in 2012) and told us they are happy with it.Unfortunately, there is no way to know for sure. The security breach itself was, of course, “new” but the only information at risk are those passwords in the database that were stored in this old-fashioned way. / 12:42 PM / CBS News LinkedIn, which suffered a major data breach four years ago, has uncovered new information suggesting the hack was much worse than it realized at the.
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The attackers exploited an improperly secured employee password to obtain email addresses and hashed and salted passwords from breached accounts that were created in 2012 and earlier. I can take a wild guess that they passwords prior to 2012 were stored either unencrypted, without salt, or using some very weak algorithm. 68 million Dropbox user accounts were compromised in 2016. These were accounts created prior to the 2012 breach that had not reset their passwords since that breach. We took immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of all LinkedIn accounts that we believed might be at risk. Originally hacked in 2012, the data remained out of sight until being offered for sale on a dark market site 4 years later. publicly announced the incident which it said took place in 2013 in December 2016. This was not a new security breach or hack. LinkedIn’s disturbing breach notice What is hard to understand is why LinkedIn didn’t feel the need to force password changes until four years after the breach By Evan Schuman Contributing. Raw Blame In May 2016, LinkedIn had 164 million email addresses and passwords exposed. Data breaches affecting millions of users are far too common. On May 17, 2016, we became aware that data stolen from LinkedIn in 2012 was being made available online. What is interesting in the note is that they included a cryptic note that the break-in was “not new”. Last week a black hat hacker using the nickname Peace was revealed as attempting to sell 117 million LinkedIn users' emails and passwords on the dark web. LinkedIn sent out a notification informing that the passwords were invalidated. John Leyden Tue // 08:26 UTC Analysis of passwords from the LinkedIn leak has revealed, should there be any doubt, that users remain terrible at choosing secure login credentials.
The company this morning that another data set from the hack, which contains over 100. Apparently, there was a serious data breach at LinkedIn and many customer records were stolen including “member email addresses, hashed passwords, and LinkedIn member IDs”. Sarah Perez sarahintampa / 7:52 AM PDT Comment A is still causing problems for its users.
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