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Woman Sues Linkedin For $5 Million Over Data Breach

Discussion in 'Security Updates' started by snoopy, Jun 21, 2012.

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      • Wednesday, June 20, 2012
        Woman Sues LinkedIn for $5 Million Over Data Breach
      • Less than two weeks after learning more than 6 million stolen LinkedIn passwords were posted online, an Illinois woman is leading a class-action lawsuit against the professional networking site for using inadequate security tools to protect its members' data.

        Katie Szpyrka, who registered for a LinkedIn account in 2010, filed the lawsuit last week in U.S. District Court in Northern California. In the complaint, she claims LinkedIn violated its own privacy policy in failing to use industry standards to protect personally identifiable information.
      • The company encrypted passwords with a SHA-1 algorithm but neglected to salt the passwords before storing them. The salt makes it more difficult to determine the protected data. Preliminary reports also show hackers used a SQL injection attack to access the databases through the company's Web site, according to the lawsuit

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    snoopy, Jun 21, 2012
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