A hacker has offered to sell the account information of 117 million LinkedIn users, which was stolen in a 2012 hack, Motherboard reported last week. The data includes users' email addresses and passwords. The hacker, who goes by the handle "Peace," reportedly offered the data on The Real Deal -- a site on the dark web -- for 5 bitcoins -- about US$2,200. LinkedIn is aware of the data and is "taking immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of the accounts impacted," said Cory Scott, director of house security. It will contact those affected to reset their passwords. About 1 million LinkedIn users' credentials purportedly from the 2012 hack provided by LeakedSource reportedly were encrypted or hashed with the SHA1 algorithm but weren't salted.
I encourage you not only to update your LinkedIn username and password, but to periodically update all of your usernames and passwords. Yes this is tedious, but it will help against these types of hacks.
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