Sunday, August 12, 2012

Russian Hackers Gain Access To 6.46 Million LinkedIn Passwords

Its time for hackers now.Last week we saw that

We didn’t see this one coming. About 6.5 million passwords belonging to LinkedIn have been leaked. And almost 60% of the passwords have been cracked already. The passwords on LinkedIn weren’t salted apparently, which made it pretty easy for the hackers to crack them. The company remained skeptical initially, but it finally came out in the open about the issue via its Twitter page. It is unfortunate that the passwords had to be given away

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