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6.5 Million LinkedIN Password Hashes Leaked

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Lee J

Well one of the largest social networking sites has become a victim to hackers who have claimed to of hacked an old data base and leaked over 6.5million accounts via a 105mb file that has been uploaded to yandex.net. We have had a quick look over the file and can confirm it does contain the said hashes, but we are not going to bother going nay further with this as many other security research sites are and have so already. more

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