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		nickzoic on June 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LeakedIn The problem isn't really your LinkedIn password ... I mean, someone could mess up your profile, send embarrassing messages and so on, but many many people will have used the same password for amazon, apple, paypal and other financial things, or used the same password for an email account which can be used to "recover" the password for one of those things.

obituary_latte on June 7, 2012 | [–]

True, password re-use is a big problem.

Though, think of how much easier it would be to social-engineer a target were you to have full access to their LI account.

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