LinkedIn’s disturbing breach notice

Late last Wednesday (May 25), LinkedIn casually sent a note to its customers that opened with one of the least-calming phrases possible: “You may have heard reports recently about a security issue involving LinkedIn.” It continued to say, in effect, “Let us now distort and misrepresent those reports to make us sound as good as possible.”  
The upshot of the notice was that LinkedIn was breached back in 2012 and that much of that stolen information has now resurfaced