LinkedIn confirms six million password hack, check if yours is one of them

It's now official, account passwords for the popular business social network LinkedIn have been compromised. Vicente Silveira, a director at LinkedIn, has confirmed that some of the passwords that were published online by a Russian hacking group "correspond to LinkedIn accounts". How many of the 161 million LinkedIn members have been impacted by this breach is as yet unknown, however it is likely to be a relatively small percentage as the published list of passwords is 'only' 6.5 million in number, even if LinkedIn passwords prove to be the vast majority if not all of them.