LinkedIn working with police on password leak

[JMH]

LinkedIn said today that it has contacted police about the compromise of its users' passwords that hackers were actively cracking earlier this week.
"Yesterday we learned that approximately 6.5 million hashed LinkedIn passwords were posted on a hacker site. Most of the passwords on the list appear to remain hashed and hard to decode, but unfortunately a small subset of the hashed passwords was decoded and published," Vicente Silveira, a director at the professional social-networking site, wrote in a blog post.
"We are also actively working with law enforcement, which is investigating this matter."

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[JMH]

[h=1]LinkedIn offers another update on password breach[/h]

Earlier this week, LinkedIn admitted that over 6 million passwords tied into accounts from its user base had somehow been lifted and posted on a Russian forum page. While it appears that most of the passwords that were posted were "hashed", some of them have been decoded. There is evidence that some LinkedIn email accounts were later used by online criminals.

In a rare Saturday blog post, LinkedIn gave an update on their investigation into this security breach. The post states, "We want to be as transparent as possible while at the same time preserving the security of our members without jeopardizing the ongoing investigation." The blog post did not offer any new information on who might have been responsible and how they might have gained access to the password list.

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