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1.5 million eHarmony passwords stolen by LinkedIn hacker

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

June 7, 2012 | 1 min read

Up to 1.5 million passwords stolen from dating site eHarmony have been posted online alongside the 6.5 million passwords taken from LinkedIn, it has been discovered.

Using the alias ‘dwdm’, the hacker posted the passwords on a Russian web forum, asking for help converting them.

Becky Teraoka, a corporate communications employee at eHarmony, said in a blog post: “After investigating reports of compromised passwords, we have found that a small fraction of our user base has been affected. We are continuing to investigate but would like to provide the following actions we are taking to protect our members.

“As a precaution, we have reset affected members passwords.

“Please be assured that eHarmony uses robust security measures, including password hashing and data encryption, to protect our members’ personal information. We also protect our networks with state-of-the-art firewalls, load balancers, SSL and other sophisticated security approaches.”

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