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The LinkedIn Carnage
It came as a huge surprise when LinkedIn revealed last month that it was almost put to the axe back in 2012 with a massive data breach compromising more than 117 million of its users’ accounts. At the time of the breach, LinkedIn admitted of getting hacked but the company downplayed the incident saying only 6.5 million users had been affected. However, the company released a statement in May acknowledging the fact that it gravely underestimated the extent of the breach. The company asked its users who hadn’t changed their passwords from 2012 to reset it immediately. The LinkedIn hack of 2012 gave the attackers access to users’ email addresses, passwords as well as LinkedIn member IDs.
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