You may still be dish out with the overplus of havingyour vacuous LinkedIn password post online — I’m talking to you , BigPenis — but , dearest , it let unfit .
https://gizmodo.com/bigpenis-and-6-5-million-other-sad-stupid-leaked-link-5916332
The popular dating site eHarmony has affirm that an unspecified numeral of their 1.5 million users ’ countersign have also been leaked onto the net today . This is probably an actual hassle — unlike a comprised LinkedIn accounting , which at bad would result in someone logging in and lean an internship at somewhere weird — because it could result in mortifying alterations to your personal geological dating visibility . Or illegitimate solicitations of a day of the month you do not actually want to go on .

eHarmonyposted the below statement on their blogthis evening :
The security of our customers ’ data is extremely important to us , and we do not take this situation light .
After investigate reports of compromised passwords , we have find that a little fraction of our user base has been affected . We are continuing to enquire but would care to provide the following actions we are taking to protect our members .

As a safeguard , we have readjust affected extremity passwords .
Those members will receive an e-mail with book of instructions on how to reset their countersign .
We commend all member to practice these robust password security tips :

• make a strong countersign of at least 8 character , composed of lower-case letter and uppercase alphabetic character , numbers and symbols
• Create dissimilar passwords for each of the Internet web site you use
• convert your passwords every few months

Please be assured that eHarmony uses robust security measure , admit password hash and data point encryption , to protect our members ’ personal information . We also protect our meshwork with country - of - the - art firewall , cargo balancers , SSL and other sophisticated certificate approaches .
We deeply regret any troublesomeness this causes any of our user .
Now go take care of business before anything too disgraceful happens to your account . GO ! [ ArsTechnica ]

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