6.5m LinkedIn passwords reportedly leak: Hackers crowdsourcing encryption crack

Password information for 6.5m members of business social network LinkedIn have been leaked, it’s been alleged, with Russian hackers supposedly crowd-sourcing help in breaking the encryption. Although the SHA1 unsalted password hashes revealed do not come with the matching usernames at present, Dagens IT and Per Thorsheim report, it’s possible the hackers are holding off on revealing those so that they can make private use of any unofficial access.
LinkedIn currently has in excess of 150m registered users, as of its own figures earlier this year, so the leaked batch of encrypted passwords don’t represent the entire user-base. However, there are signs that the leak is indeed genuine; according... »read more

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