2012-06-10

LinkedIn Hacked!

Professional social networking service LinkedIn today said it is investigating reports that hackers broke into its systems and accessed the usernames and hashed passwords of the social network's 6.5 million members.
Seems like the password hashes were leaked. However, considering some of the hashes have already been decrypted. Reason - the hashes were not salted, plus were using an outdated algo SHA1.

Update: 09-Jun-2012:
It is truly very sad Linked In is trying to be so evasive about this whole incident. Would have expected a little more responsibility from them. Their Post1 & Post2

Update 10-Jun-2012:
A good FAQ for the readers.
For now the dump is available here, but it may go offline soon. I have copied the dump of password hashes here as well. Drop me a email or comment below and I'll send over the password to you.

Update 19-Jun-2012:
LinkedIn hit by a class action law suit.

Update 20-May-2016;
Almost 4 yrs later, the hacker decides to sell the dump. However, seems like he has 117M user records (not 6.5M). Unbelievable - the company lied !

1 comment:

  1. Hacking is not a bad thing. Some people just do it for fun. And hacking is a skill.









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