{"id":25838,"date":"2016-05-18T16:17:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T23:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-hacker-is-reportedly-selling-the-stolen-emails-and-passwords-of-117-million-linkedin-users"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:59:17","slug":"a-hacker-is-reportedly-selling-the-stolen-emails-and-passwords-of-117-million-linkedin-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/a-hacker-is-reportedly-selling-the-stolen-emails-and-passwords-of-117-million-linkedin-users","title":{"rendered":"A hacker is reportedly selling the stolen emails and passwords of 117 million LinkedIn users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-hacker-is-reportedly-selling-the-stolen-emails-and-passwords-of-117-million-linkedin-users.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Privacy is practically a joke anymore.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A hacker known as \u201cPeace\u201d is selling what is reportedly account information from 117 million LinkedIn users. The stolen data is said to include email addresses and passwords, which a malicious party could use to gain access to other websites and accounts for which people used the same password.<\/p>\n<p>LinkedIn says it has about 433 million members worldwide, so this data could represent 27% of its user base.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker says the credentials were obtained during a LinkedIn data breach in 2012 that saw 6.5 million encrypted passwords posted online, <a href=\"http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/another-day-another-hack-117-million-linkedin-emails-and-password?utm_source=mbtwitter\">according to Motherboard<\/a>. But the leak now appears to be much larger than was thought at the time. Peace is selling the data for about $2,200 (5 bitcoin) on the Dark Web, the part of the internet accessible only with a special browser that masks user identities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hacker-selling-117-million-linkedin-emails-and-passwords-2016-5?utm_content=bufferdc33a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/hacker-selling-117-million-li...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy is practically a joke anymore. A hacker known as \u201cPeace\u201d is selling what is reportedly account information from 117 million LinkedIn users. The stolen data is said to include email addresses and passwords, which a malicious party could use to gain access to other websites and accounts for which people used the same password. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,34,1625,23,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-humor","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67475,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838\/revisions\/67475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}