LinkedIn asked users to reset their passwords after discovering that information theft suffered in 2012 was more serious than previously thought. A hacker named “Peace” is selling the credentials of 117 million users in the darknet for 5 bitcoins, about $ 2,200.
The company confirmed on his blog that the database contains stolen emails and passwords hashed of over one hundred million users. LinkedIn has blocked access to all accounts created before 2012 that have not updated their key since. To these people arrive an email with instructions to reset your password:
- Go to the website LinkedIn
- On one side of the password field, click in “Forgotten your password?” and enter your email address.
- you will receive an email from LinkedIn in which we will ask you to click on a link to help you reset your password.
- once you’ve reset your password, send an email with confirmation to the email addresses confirmed that are linked to your account.
“we have no indication that this is the result of a new security flaw,” says Cory Scott LinkedIn. Motherboard published yesterday the statements of Peace and another hacker who ensures that the database has been “in possession of a small group of Russian” since 2012.
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