LinkedIn: We're Investigating Reports of Stolen Passwords, Stay Tuned

LinkedIn: We're Investigating Reports of Stolen Passwords, Stay Tuned

If you're a LinkedIn user, you may want to consider changing up your password today, as well as those of any other accounts that share the same login credentials. While nothing has yet been confirmed, LinkedIn said it's currently "looking into reports of stolen passwords," reports of which are flowing through Twitter and other areas of the Internet, as well as on a Russian forum where one member claims he uploaded 6,458,020 hashed passwords.

"Stay tuned for more," LinkedIn tweeted this morning.

There's some chatter that this could all be a hoax, but security professional and passwords expert Per Thorsheim isn't buying it. According to Thorsheim, many people have already confirmed that their passwords appear in the text dump, which is currently in the process of being decrypted. And according to one report, some 300,000 passwords have already been extracted.

Our advice? Err on the side of caution and pick a new password (make sure it isn't one of these), and then change it again once LinkedIn sorts everything out.

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