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Re: [newtech-1] 117 million people at risk in LinkedIn data breach

From: Anuj G.
Sent on: Friday, May 20, 2016, 1:52 PM
Here is the official post from Linkedin

Also experts say that the passwords were easy to unscramble because of LinkedIn's failure to use a salt when hashing them, which is considered an insecure practice because it allows attackers to quickly reverse the scrambling process using existing standard rainbow tables, pre-made lists of matching scrambled and unscrambled passwords.

So not only you should change your Linkedin password but for any online accounts where the same password was used.

Cheers,

Anuj Goel, Ph.D.
Co-founder, Cyware 
sparking.cybersecurity.awareness

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Stephanie MacConnell <[address removed]> wrote:
I did! This explains a lot.

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Stephanie MacConnell
Program Director, Empire Startups
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On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Glenn Allen <[address removed]> wrote:
Did anyone else get an email from LinkedIn talking about passwords?  It must be related to this?

The article is here:

Best,
G Allen
Senior SAP Developer
@glenn_a_allen

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