Last week, on Dark Web, a hacker provided the database with LinkedIn accounts for about $2.000 in bitcoins. The hacker stated that the base contained 117 million combinations of user names and passwords from subtheft which had taken place in 2012.
At the time no one was sure if the code had been eavesdropped, as only 6,5 million encrypted passwords had been leaked online, but without their corresponding names. Today, you can finally check if you too were one of the 164.611.595 million victims.
A security researcher named Troy Hunt, who runs a website for reporting his violations LinkedInhas created a web application and allows everyone to check whether his email or username has violated 2012.
The site has a name haveibeenpwned.com (Have I Been Pwned?) and contains all the stolen database. Just fill in the email or username you used to sign in to the linkedIn and let you know if you were a victim or not.
Of course, there is the assurance from company that it has as of yesterday changed all passwords to all victims of 2012, but in case you haven't received an email notification from LinkedIn, you can double check from that website.
