LinkedIn Password Breach

7/06/2012 Article

If you don’t already know, LinkedIn had around 6.5 million usernames and passwords released into the wild. According to this official LinkedIn blog page:

“[Accounts will now] benefit from the enhanced security we just recently put in place, which includes hashing and salting of our current password databases.”

After Eight years from having the LinkedIn password breach incident, a U.S. court issues the hackers sentence. The Hacker is sentenced to 88 months in US prison.

finally has been sentenced to 88 months in United States prison, that’s more than seven years by a federal court in San Francisco this week.

You mean to say – you weren’t hashing and salting the passwords before?!

That is ridiculous!

That’s one of the most obvious ways to protect your passwords and should be employed by every authentication system no matter how large or small.