A Hackers is Succeed Breaking Six Million LinkedIn Password

One member of the Russian internet forum claimed that he had been downloaded 6.4 million passwords of the users of LinkedIn, where about 300 thousand of which are suspected of being the password to a weak level of security. The other members on the forum immediately request assistance from their fellow hackers to help solve the encryption of the passwords.

Internet security company CERT-FI has warned that hackers may have had access to the personal email of each LinkedIn user that the password has been solved, despite its status at this time appears to be still encrypted and unreadable.


The news circulating is the 6.4 million passwords are encrypted using the logarithm of SHA-1which is known has a number of shortcomings. However, if the password used by the LinkedIn users have high levels of security, then the password will not be easily solved even if the hacker has succeeded in making a cache for the password.

LinkedIn currently has recorded more than 150 million users worldwide, and this attack will only be expected to strike less than five percent of total users. It remains unclear whether the number of passwords which are successful be cracked have increased of the total 6.4 million, but this obviously becomes a crushing attack for the reputation of 'professional' is echoed by LinkedIn.