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LinkedIn Suffers Major Hack

A hacker is trying to sell the emails and passwords of 117 million LinkedIn members on a “dark web” illegal marketplace, Motherboard reports. “For LinkedIn, the lesson is the same as four years ago: don’t store passwords in an insecure way,” it writes. “Another lesson is that even old hacked data can sometimes be valuable, given that some of these passwords might still be valid.

 

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