LinkedIn confirms 2012 hack exposed 117M user passwords

NEW YORK (AP) — LinkedIn said Wednesday that a 2012 breach resulted in more than 100 million of its users’ passwords being compromised — vastly more than previously thought.
The business social network said that it believes to be true a purported hacker’s claim that 117 million user emails and passwords were stolen in the breach, up from the 6.5 million user credentials that the company originally said were compromised. Those 6.5 million passwords were reset in 2012 and t