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Data Breach at LinkedIn: Time to Seriously Consider Using a Password Manager!

Just in the last post, we were discussing how even some of the world’s mightiest enterprises were falling prey to hackers.  Now comes the bad news about the security breach in LinkedIn! Reports claim that over 6.46 million hashed passwords stolen from LinkedIn have been published on a Russian forum. In a blog post , LinkedIn has confirmed the security breach, but remains silent on the magnitude: “We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts. We are continuing to investigate this situation”, says the post