As per the latest reports, professional social networking website LinkedIn.com gets hacked and the hackers responsible for this, leaked the entire data on the Internet. The hackers are from Russia as per the reports and these hackers are inviting other hackers to crack the hacked passwords as they are in encrypted form.
After this i have also been receiving suspicious emails from LinkedIn users requesting me to add their accounts in spite of the fact that i don’t have nay account at LinkedIn. Security firm Sophos performed a deep analysis of the leaked data and claims that users should change the password asap.
Linked in response to this have tweeted that they are searching and acquiring more info regarding this hack and security breach.
LinkedIn is a social networking site for professionals. Like Facebook it also provides social networking interface to professionals. Most of the companies in USA search for the profile of the candidate on LinkedIn before recruiting him/her. LinkedIn also have a strong presence in India.