LINKEDIN SECURITY BREACH

LinkedIn is a business-oriented networking tool for professionals, job seekers, and others to find connections.
It has encountered a security breach in 2012 which hit 6.5 million users. Nevertheless, only recently, LinkedIn revealed that the security breach might have affected over 100 million users. So, if you have a LinkedIn account, you might want to change your password, from time to time.

In 2012, LinkedIn revealed that a group of hackers had stolen the private information (login and password) of over 6.5 million users. Now hackers possessing the user data are selling it on the Dark Web. LinkedIn has numerously demanded the seized data of its’ users, but so far, it had no luck. For now, LinkedIn is using “automated tools” to detect any suspicious activity. If you are a LinkedIn user, the chances are that you might be among 117 million users who have been affected by the breach. Even if you are not, consider strengthening your password from time to time. LinkedIn noted in a blog post that changing your password is always a good idea.
In an email to the Los Angeles Times, May Chow of LinkedIn’s corporate communication wrote “We’ve begun to invalidate passwords for all accounts created before the 2012 breach that hasn’t updated their password since that breach. We’re also continuing to notify members via email and banners on our site.”

With the vast amount of access to our personal information on the web, our online security should be a priority to all of us. We should take more responsibility for our online possessions and stop using the same password for every single social account. Personal, meaningful passwords, dates, nicknames ever so slightly varying from one of your social accounts to the other, are very easy to hack. Remember that everything on the web is public, even if you have protected it with a password.

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