LinkedIn Hack FAQ: What You Need To Know

07.06.2012
LinkedIn users awoke to a nasty surprise today as word spread that and leaked passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts. LinkedIn didn't acknowledge the hack until midday Wednesday afternoon, when the company finally confirmed that a certain number of member passwords had indeed been compromised.

A user on a public Russian forum is taking credit for the hack, but no one has been able to verify if he or she is really behind this whole mess.

We don't know when the hack took place, but , the hackers posted the data over the course of three days.