Hi and welcome to Sabir reasons malicious life. I'm Ren Levy. On June 2012, 2012, an anonymous hacker posted a list of 6.5 million encrypted passwords on a Russian hacker forum.

They were posted there apparently to crowdsource the cracking process.

Members of this forum, who obviously had a lot of experience dealing with hacking and

passwords, played around with the published passwords and cracked some of them. They discovered that many of the cracked passwords contained

the word linked him. Since many people used the name of the website they're registering

to as part of their chosen password, not a good idea obviously,

many hackers suspected that the posted passwords were related to LinkedIn.

A few days after the reveal of the alleged passwords leak, LinkedIn tweeted, quote,

Our team continues to investigate,

but at this time we're still unable to confirm that any security

breach has occurred.

Stay tuned here.

End quote.

However, in a post on their blog on the very same day and concerning the same alleged

incident, LinkedIn representatives already changed the language.

It is worth noting that the affected members who update their passwords and members whose

passwords have not been compromised benefit from the enhanced security we just recently put in place,

which includes hashing and salting of our current password databases." End quote.

That was at least some kind of recognition on the part of LinkedIn

that password protection measures needed to be improved.

Following the attack, two lawsuits were filed against LinkedIn,

one in June 2012 and the other in November of the same year.

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