LinkedIn Breach
May 5, 2012
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Added on Dec 1, 2024
What happened in the LinkedIn Breach?
DataBreach.com Team · November 30th 2024, 7:00 pm EST
In May 2016, LinkedIn experienced a data breach where email addresses and passwords, originally hacked in 2012, were exposed and offered for sale on a dark market site. The passwords were stored as SHA1 hashes without salt and were quickly cracked after the data release.
