On Jun 6, 2012, at 7:17 PM, Luke Hankins wrote:

> http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/06/linkedin-member-passwords-compromised/
> ...includes this snippet:
> "enhanced security we just recently put in place, which includes hashing
> and salting of our current password databases."
> 
> (Which implies that the passwords weren't hashed until recently...  Buh?)

Now that the followup blog post is out 
<http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/07/taking-steps-to-protect-our-members/>, I 
can comment that our passwords are most definitely hashed--have been ever since 
the initial breach we suffered a couple years ago.  And now they're salted, too 
:^)  Vicente, as you can imagine, has been burning the midnight oil & wasn't 
quite as precise as he should have been.

-Guy

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