117 of millions of passwords and messages of users of LinkedIn are laid out in the network

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An unknown hacker under the pseudonym Peace put up for sale on an illegal website on the Internet millions of accounts of the social network LinkedIn, which were hacked back in 2012.

Then LinkedIn management agreed to pay compensation to their users for the passwords stolen by hackers as a result of breaking into their security systems and posted on one of the Russian forums. Almost 6,5 million users suffered from hacking.

Now the Peace hacker has posted information on 167 million accounts, 117 of which include passwords and user messages on the social network. Many users are reportedly still using the same passwords they had in 2012.

User data is offered for purchase for as little as $ 2200, and payment must be made by bitcoins through the appropriate digital payment system.

LinkedIn has already reported that they are checking accounts now to see if they are still active and are contacting the users to whom they belong with the proposal to change passwords.

In addition, it is recommended to change passwords on other accounts in social networks, since many use the same or similar passwords to access several of their pages.