By Allison Grande
Law360, New York (May 18, 2016, 12:33 PM ET) -- LinkedIn said Wednesday that more than 100 million email and password combinations believed to have been compromised in a 2012 data breach have recently been posted online, expanding the fallout from a data theft that resulted in a separate set of 6.5 million passwords being publicly released four years ago.
The data breach first grabbed headlines in 2012, when LinkedIn Corp. revealed that a file containing more than 6.46 million hashed passwords that allegedly belonged to LinkedIn users were posted to a Russian “hacker website.”...
LinkedIn Data Breach: 117 Million Emails and Passwords Leaked - Fortune
Much more than the 6.5 million originally thought.
Remember LinkedIn’s 2012 data breach?A hacker stole 6.5 million encrypted passwords from the site and posted them to a Russian crime forum. Now it appears that data theft was just the tip of the iceberg.
A Russian hacker, who goes by “Peace,” is selling 117 million email and password combinations on a dark web marketplace, Vice Motherboard reports. The going rate for the loot is five Bitcoins, or about $2,300.
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