A snippet of the file containing reportedly leaked (and encrypted) LinkedIn passwords, obscured for security
(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET)
LinkedIn has posted an update on what it's doing to protect its members following the appearance, earlier this week, of millions of member passwords online.
"First," the post says, "it's important to know that compromised passwords were not published with corresponding e-mail logins. At the time they were initially published, the vast majority of those passwords remained hashed, i.e., encoded, but unfortunately a subset of the passwords was decoded. Again, we are not aware of any member information being published at any time in connection with the list of stolen passwords. The only information published was the passwords themselves."
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