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LinkedIn Finally Finished Resetting All the Passwords Leaked in 2012

May 24, 2016

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Days after a hacker put up for sale a database of LinkedIn usernames and passwords that were stolen in a data breach back in 2012, the company says it has now finally finished resetting the passwords of all the victims.

“We have invalidated the passwords of all accounts that were created prior to the 2012 breach that hadn’t updated their password since then, and that is, as we reported, more than 100 million people,” a LinkedIn spokesperson told Motherboard on Monday.

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