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Change your LinkedIn password now. The service has been breached

June 6, 2012/

LinkedIn, the business-based social network, has reportedly been breached by hackers who made off with about 6.5 million user account passwords. The passwords are encrypted, reports The Next Web, but they’ve been posted online with a request for other hackers to help crack them.

At this point, stop reading this and go change your LinkedIn password to one that’s strong. Do it now. I’ll wait.

Full Story: http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2012/06/06/change-your-linkedin-password-now-the-service-has-been-breached/?tsp=1

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