LinkedIn – Professional networking unsecure?

As the most sought after website for connecting people across geographies professionally, LinkedIn has become one of the fastest growing companies of the year.  But the recent password theft incident at LinkedIn has caused serious damage to its reputation, as over 160 million users wait for LinkedIn to comment on the whole incident.

With accusations coming from security analysts, LinkedIn is still trying to control the situation with ongoing investigations about how criminal hackers got access to 6 million passwords on underground websites. Customers were also sent notifications once news of the security breach started surfacing.

Some analysts also continue to question security practices at LinkedIn, as they say that a major Internet company should have prepared for situations such as these. As a matter of fact, LinkedIn does not have a chief information security officer or a Chief Information Officer, which are typically individuals who oversee security functions at an organization.

Others believe that passwords were not encrypted with a sophisticated algorithm, leaving the passwords susceptible to easy access from hackers with moderate level of skills and other computer resources at hand. Whatever may be the case, LinkedIn stores data of millions of professionals worldwide and therefore, is a lucrative data source for data thieves as well.

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