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6 million LinkedIn passwords leaked and posted to Internet

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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