Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Getty Images LinkedIn only took limited measures to encode its users' passwords prior to 2012 A hacker is advertising what he says is more than one hundred million LinkedIn logins. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. "We take the safety and security of our members' accounts seriously," wrote Cory Scott, the company's chief information security officer. Hackers are selling the stolen LinkedIn database on a black market online called "The Real Deal," according to tech news site Motherboard.įor its part, LinkedIn offered the same, go-to statement used by every company after a data breach. "If LinkedIn is only now discovering the scale of data that was exfiltrated from their systems, what went wrong with the forensic analysis that should have discovered this?" said Brad Taylor, CEO of cybersecurity firm Proficio. Now, computer security experts are wondering why it took so long for LinkedIn to figure out what happened to their own company computers - or acknowledge it publicly. Originally hacked in 2012, the data remained out of sight until being offered for sale on a dark market site 4 years later. This particular hack affects a quarter of the company's 433 million members. Raw Blame In May 2016, LinkedIn had 164 million email addresses and passwords exposed. LinkedIn said it's reaching out to individual members affected by the breach. The company is also invalidating all customer passwords that haven't been updated since they were stolen. Put on the defensive, LinkedIn is now scrambling to try to stop people from sharing the stolen goods online - often an impractical task. In June 2012, LinkedIn disclosed a data breach had occurred.
The company announced this morning that another data set from the hack, which contains over 100 million LinkedIn members. But at the time of the 2012 data breach, LinkedIn hadn't added a pivotal layer of security that makes the jumbled text harder to decode. In October 2016, hackers collected 20 years of data on six databases that included names. A LinkedIn hack from back in 2012 is still causing problems for its users.
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This episode drudges up some embarrassing history for LinkedIn.īecause of the company's old security policy, these passwords are easy for hackers to crack in a matter of days.Ĭompanies typically protect customer passwords by encrypting them. LinkedIn has been hit again with a security breach that exposed the data of 700 million users which, if proven true, would mean that 92 of the site's users would have had their data.
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