By - Trevor Mogg
LinkedIn said late Tuesday that up to now there have been no
reports of compromised accounts following last week's security breach.
It also said it had added an extra layer of security to accounts.
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| LinkedIn Strategies |
The business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn issued a
statement late Tuesday announcing it has added an extra layer of
security for users of its service.
“The LinkedIn technology team
has completed a long-planned transition from a password database system
that hashed passwords, i.e. provided one layer of encoding, to a system
that both hashes and salts the passwords, i.e. provides an extra layer
of protection,” the statement said.
The announcement follows an embarrassing security breach for the company last week
when some 6.5 million encrypted passwords belonging to users of the
site were stolen by hackers and posted on the web. Of these, an
estimated 160,000 were cracked, though in its statement LinkedIn said
that the stolen passwords were not published together with email logins,
and that so far there have been no reports of compromised LinkedIn accounts.
In
an effort to reassure users of its service, the company said it was
continuing to work with law enforcement agencies to investigate the
crime and was also looking at more ways to further upgrade security
measures.
Saying it was “profoundly sorry” for the incident, the
California-based company promised to provide further updates as and when
information became available.
Speaking to the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, Alex Stamos of web security firm Artemis Internet said that while LinkedIn’s security system was deemed solid a couple of years ago, recently it had become easier to crack.
He added that LinkedIn users, or anybody with online accounts for that matter, should be sure not to use
the same password for more than one site. Easier said than done, we
know, but failing to take sensible precautions with online security
could result in a right royal mess in the future.
Popular with
professionals around the world, LinkedIn has attracted around 160
million members since it first came on the scene in 2003.
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