POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: If you use Linkedin, you should probably change your password.: Re: If you use Linkedin, you should probably change your password.

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From: Jim Henderson
Date: 6 Jun 2012 15:38:35
Message: <4fcfb1bb@news.povray.org>

On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:11:40 -0700, Kevin Wampler wrote:

> It appears that a complete list of all the hashes for the passwords of
> Linkedin users has been leaked.  Astonishingly Linkedin didn't bother to
> salt them, so it's possible to reverse-engineer the true passwords from
> them in many cases (apparently about 3.5 million have probably already
> been cracked).  If you have a Linkedin account you should change you
> password ASAP, and if you use that password on other sites linked to
> your name, you should probably change those too.

Interestingly, though, the user accounts are not associated with the 
hashes in what was leaked.

Jim

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