If you have been following the news, you may have heard that LinkedIn was hacked.
Or maybe you got an email from LinkedIn saying that your password was part of the breach.
It appears that 1.6M user passwords were posted to the Internet.
A lot of info is still not known, such as whether usernames or financial data was compromised.
However, I am not worried about it.
Here’s why…
Here is My LinkedIn Password
On Friday, I got an email from LinkedIn letting me know that they had been hacked and that they “believed” my password was part of the heist.
Here is the email:
In case you are interested, here is the password that was compromised:
My LinkedIn Password:
P3fyS1zM
Or, rather that was my password until I changed it.
The new password is an even longer string of letters, numbers, and special characters.
Can you say the same of your password?
Or was yours one of the common passwords hacked, such as: link, 123456, work, monkey, dragon, or princess?
(Interesting password choices, I must say…)
LastPass Has My Back
I knew that I had nothing to worry about because I use LastPass for all of my passwords.
I was able to quickly check my password and confirm that it was…
1- A complex password (not a simple word)
2 – Not used on any of my other accounts
I don’t even remember many of my passwords, because LastPass tracks them for me.
Additionally, I use their password generator to create long and complex passwords that are not easily hacked.
If you are wondering if your password was part of the LinkedIn hacking, you can check if your LinkedIn password was hacked here.
Are Your Passwords Secure?
I was not impressed or too happy with LinkedIn for getting hacked.
However, I didn’t lose any sleep over my compromised password.
It was not used on any of my other accounts and I easily generated a new secure one.
Make sure you take care of your passwords now, so you don’t have to worry down the road.
Question: Are your passwords secure? Are you guilty of using the same one across accounts?
Okay, but what happens when you forget your lastpass password?
Well, you need to know THAT password. 🙂
Make sure you store it in a safe place.
Unfortunately, if you lose that password you lose your LastPass account. They don’t know your password as everything is encrypted on the local system using your master password.
Same for me, I’m totally relaxed. I use KeePass.
My only problem with password management software is that you really don’t know if the software itself is secure. Is lastpass open source? Have security experts combed through it to make sure it isn’t sending your password info through a back channel somewhere nefarious? I know that KeePass is open source and I have a fair amount of confidence that it is safe. The iOS app iKeePass however is not and I worry about what it is doing behind the scenes.
I use LastPass as well for generating my passwords. I used to use the same password, or similar password for most sites, but since I started using LastPass I made them unique to each site.
I wasn’t sure if my LinkedIn password was compromised as I didn’t receive a notification. I did, however, change my password anyway. You can never be too careful.
Absolutely, Paul.
LastPass offers an assessment to give you a “fitness level” of your passwords.
Check it out here: https://lastpass.com/index.php?securitychallenge=1&fromwebsite=1&lpnorefresh=1
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