Internet Security Blog from Kevin Lam

Today reports came in that 6.5 million passwords were stolen from LinkedIn.  LinkedIn reported that they are investigating these claims.  Even if the claims turn out not to be true, I wouldn’t take the risk if I were you.  Now’s a really good time to change your LinkedIn password, here’s how:

1. Sign into your account at https://www.linkedin.com.

2. On the top right corner click the drop-down by your name and then select ‘Settings’.

3. Click on on the password change link just under your primary email.

Now you can change your password to a different password.  Also, if you’re using the same password for LinkedIn as other services like Gmail, Facebook, Hotmail.com, etc. I would go ahead and change those as well.

–Kevin