You may want to change your LinkedIn password today. In the past few days, I've had several friends tell me that they're noticing a lot of spam occuring in their LinkedIn account - spam emails coming to them via other users on LinkedIn and various other strange activity. Well now, we know why:
Business social network LinkedIn says it is investigating reports that more than six million passwords have been stolen and leaked onto the Internet.Source: KSDK.com
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PCWorld (blog) - by Ian Paul