6.5 Million Hashed LinkedIn Passwords Posted on Hacker Site
I don’t sign in my LinkedIn account as much as Facebook, but I just discovered that LinkedIn passwords for 6.5 million accounts were recently compromised.
You probably see that in my previous post, I talk about Last.fm.
According to the LinkedIn blog, no email logins associated with the passwords have been published, nor have they received any verified reports of unauthorized access to any member’s account as a result of this event.
Immediately when I logged in, I saw a message about changing my password. If you have an account there, I would also suggest that you do the same: https://www.linkedin.com/uas/request-password-reset?trk=pwblog (which is also linked in the blog if you do not feel comfortable with clicking that link).
With multiple passwords and changes between home and work, I’m thankful to have an app to keep track of my passwords. How do you keep track of you passwords? Do you use the same password for multiple accounts? I’m trying to get away from doing that.
I use my brain, which is fleeting. I might start using LastPass. I know LinkedIn teamed up with them so you can figure out if your password was compromised. Mine wasn’t, thank goodness, but it does make me uneasy that I might have to come up with ANOTHER password that has numbers, capital letters, and bings and whatnot. Shouldn’t be that much of a hassle to sign on somewhere. I remember when you didn’t even need an email address to sign up for a web account, but now I’m digressing.
I use mSecure on my iPad and iPhone for my passwords and I love it. With work alone, there is just too much to remember. Some of the systems require new passwords every 30 days and the new pasword can’t be like the previous because it will remember the last 30 passwords.
Haven’t used an app to actually store my passwords but I may consider in the future. Reason being is that I have not found any app that can honestly say that no information is stored somewhere in their database about the information you put on their app. But heard about this msecure. Not sure if you guys used it before.
By deleting or clearing your cookings or history details can avoid your accounts from hackers. This would better pre-plan to avoid hacking