6 million LinkedIn account passwords stolen

[thewayne]

So sign on and change 'em! They've modified their system to use more heavily-salted hashes for future changes, so why didn't they do that in the first place? I guess getting people's social network connections was more important than doing a good job defending the data.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/LinkedIn-confirms-that-user-passwords-were-compromised-1612554.html