Listen "The Password Problem: Inside the LinkedIn 2012 Breach"
Episode Synopsis
In 2012, LinkedIn—one of the world’s largest professional networking sites—suffered a massive data breach that exposed more than 6.5 million hashed passwords. What seemed at first like a contained incident would later be revealed as one of the largest security compromises of its time, with over 117 million accounts ultimately affected.
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