LinkedIn Promises Heightened Security; Posts Q&A for Concerned Users
Last week's security breach was a bad time for LinkedIn and its users. Irresponsible hackers took over 6 million passwords and posted them on a Russian website, and as the word spread there wasn't a corner of the web where people weren't saying "Change your LinkedIn password or else!" The problem was compounded the next day when malicious phishers attempted to elicit scared users' passwords by sending out fake emails from LinkedIn. LinkedIn has responded on their blog, and hope that you can keep calm and carry on.
Last week’s security breach was a bad time for LinkedIn and its users. Irresponsible hackers took over 6 million passwords and posted them on a Russian website, and as the word spread there wasn’t a corner of the web where people weren’t saying “Change your LinkedIn password or else!” The problem was compounded the next day when malicious phishers attempted to elicit scared users’ passwords by sending out fake emails from LinkedIn. LinkedIn has responded on their blog, and hope that you can keep calm and carry on.
Vicente Silveira from LinkedIn posted a message on the blog indicating how LinkedIn is working with the FBI to find the perpetrators, and also working with some of the other websites that were hacked, like eHarmony.
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