The Anonymous Widower

LinkedIn Passwords

LinkedIn has been hacked and their passwords have been st0len.  There are details here.

Usually, I keep my passwords pretty random and unique, but mine must be one that they thought could get them into my Google Account.  I didn’t, as I got this e-mail from Google.

Someone recently tried to sign in to your Google Account, xxxx@xxxx.xxx. We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account. Please review the details of the sign-in attempt:

Thursday, June 7, 2012 9:38:32 AM GMT
IP Address: 188.158.25.46
Location: Tehran, Iran 

I didn’t trust the e-mail, but logged in manually to Google and changed my password. Incidentally, when I logged in, Google informed me of the suspicious activity.

So it does look like there is some hanky-panky going on.

So login to all your important accounts, where your e-mail address is used as login in any way and check things out.

June 7, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Computing, News | E-Mail, Fraud, Google, Iran, LinkedIn, Russia