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scoates on June 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: LeakedIn

Yeah. We got hit pretty hard. It doesn't actually take a minute or two, unless you're doing a few hundred at the same time. Fixing. (-:

mythz on June 6, 2012 [–]

Can you confirm you're not logging/recording the hashed passwords?

shiflett on June 6, 2012 | [–]

We can tell you we're not, but that doesn't actually confirm anything. (We're really not, though.)

To be safe, you should consider the SHA-1 hash of your LinkedIn password to be public, even if it's not one of these 6.5 million.

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