UPDATE: LinkedIn Addresses Gawker Hack ... Briefly
Interested in LinkedIn's take on how it inherited hack risk from Gawker? Check this out now.
It took a little longer than I’d have liked, but LinkedIn has released a statement about its accounts having been compromised. As you read yesterday, the hacking of Gawker’s user database led to exposures on other social media platforms including LinkedIn and Twitter. To LinkedIn’s credit, the slow public statement was likely due to the fact that the company spent the early hours after discovering the problem interacting with its users directly – which is as it should be.
The company says on its blog: “As we closely monitored the situation, we decided it was imperative to take preemptive action to help ensure that those leaked passwords were not being used to attack any LinkedIn members.”
LinkedIn goes on to explain that there was only “a very small fraction of our members whose accounts could potentially be affected by the recent breach.”
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