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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Your LinkedIn account could be compromised.

Many users of the business-networking website, LinkedIn, were included in a list of 6.5 million stolen passwords that was released yesterday on a Russian website.

LinkedIn took the opprotunity to confirm the publication on their blog yesterday afternoon.

While your password might not have been on the list, CMIT Solutions highly recommends that you change your LinkedIn password... Now! Changing your password as soon as possible will help to avoid compromising your account.

Additionally, if you like to use the same password for more than one of your accounts, we recommend you change those passwords as well.

From CNN.com:
"[LinkedIn] did not offer any information about how the passwords were stolen or the extent of the damage, but it said it is 'continuing to investigate' the matter."

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