Mountain View, Calif. -- LinkedIn, the Mountain View-based online business network, late Wednesday confirmed earlier reports that some of its member passwords had been stolen. "We can confirm that some of the passwords that were compromised correspond to LinkedIn accounts," the company wrote in a blog post. The company said that members with accounts associated with the compromised passwords will need to reset their passwords, which have now been invalidated. A user in a Russian forum early Wednesday claimed to have hacked and uploaded about 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords onto the web.
http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/06/linkedin-member-passwords-compromised/