LinkedIn breach INVOLVES LinkedIn
The 2012 LinkedIn breach involved LinkedIn's website and database.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 87 Details
“back in 2012, LinkedIn’s website was breached”
Incident
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Also: LinkedIn database breach, LinkedIn database dump
2012 breach and subsequent public circulation of a database containing LinkedIn user credentials.
2012 breach and subsequent public circulation of a database containing LinkedIn user credentials.
“LinkedIn was breached in 2012.”
“over 100 million e-mails and passwords were stolen”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Explicit | 87 | |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | SHA-1 | Explicit | 87 |
| outgoing | INVOLVES | Password salting | Explicit | 87 |
| outgoing | CONTAINS | Personal identifiable information | Explicit | 87 |
| incoming | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Trump Twitter account compromise (2016) | Uncertain | 87 |
LinkedIn breach INVOLVES LinkedIn
The 2012 LinkedIn breach involved LinkedIn's website and database.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 87 Details
“back in 2012, LinkedIn’s website was breached”
LinkedIn breach INVOLVES SHA-1
The stolen LinkedIn data included SHA-1 hashed passwords.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 87 Details
“the data stolen from the LinkedIn breach was usernames, e-mail addresses, and SHA-1 hashed passwords”
LinkedIn breach INVOLVES Password salting
The episode says LinkedIn was not salting its passwords, making password cracking easier.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 87 Details
“LinkedIn wasn’t salting their passwords which is a way to make cracking passwords harder”
LinkedIn breach CONTAINS Personal identifiable information
The publicly circulated LinkedIn database dump contained user details including email addresses and passwords.
Explicit Confidence 94% · Jack Rhysider EP 87 Details
“The document that Edwin downloaded from Facebook simply contained the e-mail address and the cracked clear text password.”
Trump Twitter account compromise (2016) ASSOCIATED_WITH LinkedIn breach
The episode suggests, but does not establish, that Trump's earlier Twitter compromise may have resulted from credentials exposed in the LinkedIn breach.
Uncertain Confidence 82% · Jack Rhysider EP 87 Details
“I just wonder if someone saw his password in that breach and that’s how they logged into Twitter then.”
“If so, why didn’t he change his password in 2013?”