Wall Street Journal reports security breach against LinkedIn passwords

[Lloyd Kvam]

Today's WSJ reported in the Digits column that encrypted LinkedIN
passwords had been leaked.  Decryption efforts have been successful
against some subset of these passwords.

I was disappointed to see no acknowledgement on the LinkIn site.  (I
just found it buried in the clutter.  Its a link to CBS news??)


The passwords may not be attached to account names.  Still they will
likely be added to the lists of passwords in cracking tool-kits.

(I know a lot of people on this list use LinkedIn so I figure this is
relevant.)  

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Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp
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