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."
