Misery loves company, though that probably won't come as much consolation to social networking site LinkedIn, which is now joined by at least two other sites that suffered a serious security breach at the hands of the same band of hackers. Both Last.fm and eHarmony issued separate statements confirming that some user passwords may have been compromised in the recent hacker attack.
Phishers are coming out of the woodwork trying to bait panicked or otherwise unsuspecting LinkedIn users into supposedly 'confirming' their account, but what they're really doing is hijacking login credentials. They're also compounding the situation, whereby LinkedIn has now confirmed it suffered a data breach in which encrypted user passwords were compromised. Here's what you should do.
If you're a LinkedIn user, you may want to consider changing up your password today, as well as those of any other accounts that share the same login credentials. While nothing has yet been confirmed, LinkedIn said it's currently "looking into reports of stolen passwords," reports of which are flowing through Twitter and other areas of the Internet, as well as on a Russian forum where one member claims he uploaded 6,458,020 hashed passwords.
The Internet community is like one big Encyclopedia Brown, always solving mysteries with barely any information to work with. Just ask Eidos Montreal. After posting a handful of job listings outlining some mystery projects, a curious Web user tried to sniff out intel on what the company was working on, and while he has yet to uncover what secret projects the company has up its sleeve, he did uncover some juicy tidbits about the upcoming Thief 4 game.
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