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As many as 6 million LinkedIn passwords have been hacked. According to news reports, hackers posted a file containing the passwords in encryption onto a Russian web forum, thereby making it public. They invited the hacking community to help them with decryption.

LinkedIn has more than 150 million users. LinkedIn has immediately tightened up their security by permitted existing users to log in only after confirming their email address.

It was found that after the hacking, the users of LinkedIn whose information was stolen began receiving email scams for phishing. Read more of this post