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Data breach at LinkedIn

• Albert Zenkoff
• 2016-05-26
• Society, breach, break-in, data breach, database, hack, LinkedIn, passwords, stolen

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”. LinkedIn sent out a notification informing that the passwords were invalidated. What is interesting in the note is that they included a cryptic note that the break-in was “not new”. ...

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