{"id":15925,"date":"2012-06-06T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=15925"},"modified":"2024-01-15T06:19:17","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T12:19:17","slug":"linkedin-hacked-youre-gonna-want-to-change-that-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/06\/linkedin-hacked-youre-gonna-want-to-change-that-password\/","title":{"rendered":"LinkedIn hacked. You&#8217;re gonna want to change that password."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you on LinkedIn? If you are then you may want to head over to the site and change your password, The Next Web reports that LinkedIn&#8217;s security has been compromised and 6.5 million users&#8217;s passwords have been posted on a Russian hacker website. This shortly after it was<a title=\"The Next Web - LinkedIn's iOS App collects and transmits names, emails and notes from your calendar, in plain text\" href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2012\/06\/06\/linkedins-ios-app-collects-and-sends-names-emails-and-meeting-notes-from-your-calendar-back-in-plain-text\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> found out that LinkedIn&#8217;s iOS app has been transmitting un-encrypted data<\/a> to their servers. It&#8217;s not a good day for LinkedIn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WHAT TO DO?<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>So what next? Well the short answer is CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD NAOW! (<em>Emphasis mine<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the reports from <em>The Next Web&#8217;s<\/em>&nbsp;source confirmed some 300,000 of the 6.5 million passwords as being decrypted, it&#8217;s still in your best interest to head over to the site and change your login info. Also of note, though both the password leak and the iOS&#8217;s lack of encryption are very problematic, it should be stressed that they are two separate issues &#8211; the apps have been updated on Android and the iOS update is pending approval from the App Store as of this writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, LinkedIn officially acknowledged the password issue on Twitter; now we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see how they fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Our team is currently looking into reports of stolen passwords. Stay tuned for more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 LinkedIn News (@LinkedInNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LinkedInNews\/status\/210356986401927168\" data-datetime=\"2012-06-06T13:06:28+00:00\">June 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/socialmedia\/2012\/06\/06\/bad-day-for-linkedin-6-5-million-hashed-passwords-reportedly-leaked-change-yours-now\/\">The Next Web<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LinkedIn hacked! 6.5 MILLION passwords leaked! Change yours NOW! Don&#8217;t wait for iOS fix, your data&#8217;s at risk!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":15926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[738],"tags":[1170,42,3506,210,646,2839],"class_list":["post-15925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hacked","tag-linkedin","tag-news","tag-security","tag-spotlight","tag-tech-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/linkedinnews.png?fit=539%2C215&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelghY-48R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23422,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15925\/revisions\/23422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}