[LINK] Millions of LinkedIn passwords leaked online

[Ben Elliston]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 08:06:29AM +0900, Dr Bob Jansen wrote:

> Reports on the BBC indicated that the file was encrypted and placed
> on a hacker site and asking for assistance in decrypting it.

Yes, sorry, you're right:

  "An unknown hacker has posted more than 8 million cryptographic
  hashes to the Internet that appear to belong to users of LinkedIn"

That's not quite the same as what was reported. :-)

Cheers, Ben
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