Hacker Selling 117 Million LinkedIn Accounts On Darkweb

A hacker using the code name of Peace is selling 117 million LinkedIn user information on darkweb for 5 Bitcoins(around $2200/£1,500).LeakedSource, the paid search engine for hacked data managed to get a copy of the stolen data stated that there are around 167 million hacked account and 117 million have both emails and encrypted passwords.
LeakedSource commented about the password sasying,
"Passwords were stored in SHA1 with no salting. This is not what internet standards propose. Only 117m accounts have passwords and we suspect the remaining users registered using Facebook or some similarity."

Additionally, security researcher Troy Hunt Tweeted that as the passwords are encrypted with SHA-1, it will be easily cracked.

Things about the LinkedIn breach:
- Dates to 2012
- SHA1 with no salt (I believe it's changed since)
- Weak passwords will be easily cracked

— Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) May 18, 2016

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