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October 19, 2016 03:19 pm GMT

Russian hacker arrested in connection to massive LinkedIn attack

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Working in concert with local authorities, the FBI has arrested a Russian man who's suspected of hacking LinkedIn in 2012 and attempting to sell the personal details of users online. 

LinkedIn confirmed in an email to Mashable the suspect, who was arrested in the Czech Republic, is allegedly connected to a major breach of the service that affected at least 117 million users.

The true extent of the hack of LinkedIn, which occurred in 2012, was made public in a blog post by the company in May. Originally, 6.5 million passwords were leaked online, but this number jumped significantly when a hacker told Motherboard he had attempted to sell the emails and passwords of hundreds of millions of LinkedIn users on the dark web.  Read more...

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