Thursday, June 7, 2012

LASTPASS TOOL TO CHECK IF LINKED IN PASSWORDS STOLEN

How to Check If Your LinkedIn Password Was 

Stolen or not.


 LinkedIn has updated their blog indicating that there was a breach, and about 6.5 M 
user passwords were stolen on 6/6/12.Dont get Worried that your LinkedIn password 
may be a part of the nearly 6.5 million compromised on Wednesday.
Password management company LastPass has released a secure tool 
to see if your password was among the stolen one.
Check whether your password is one of those 6.5 million leaked from LinkedIn!! 
if u r a LinkedIn user go and check here LAST PASS TOOL .
Hhow LASTPASS TOOL works: -After typing your LinkedIn password into  
LastPass’s tool, the service computes its SHA-1 hash and sends the result 
to LastPass.com. It then searches among the  LinkedIn list of 6.5 million leaked 
password hashes.

LinkedIn was hacked - confirmed by LinkedIn on 6/6/2012



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