Linkedin Password Leak How To Change Yours
On June 6 Norwegian website Dagens IT reported that 6.4 million passwords had been stolen from professional networking site LinkedIn and posted on a known Russian hacker site.
Though user details have not been posted along with the passwords, it is widely believed that the hackers will also have access to this information. LinkedIn responded quickly to the issue on Twitter, sending the following message from its official account (@LinkedInNews): "Our team is currently looking into reports of stolen passwords. Stay tuned for more."
To protect your LinkedIn account experts recommend that users change their password as quickly as possible.
To change your password on LinkedIn, log into the site using your existing details, then hover over your name displayed in blue on the top right of the site and click on 'Settings' in the drop box that appears. On the following screen, select ‘Change' displayed in blue next to the word ‘Password' and enter your new details.
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