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LinkedIn breach – the fallout

Since publication of 6.5 million LinkedIN password records by Russian hackers last week, reports have been flooding in of other accounts being subject to unauthorised access.  Where users have used the same email address and password for their LinkedIN account and  other accounts such as eBay, PayPal, Skype, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and personal email accounts,

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LinkedIn hack – the reality

I expect readers have heard about the LinkedIn hack, either in the news, or via an email from LinkedIn with password reset instructions if your account appeared on the leaked list. LinkedIn have now also added salt to their hash, so along with using SHA-1, which is a mathematical algorithm that turns a string of

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