Career-oriented social network LinkedIn is looking into reports that that up to 6.5 million user passwords were stolen and posted on a Russian website.
LinkedIn, which counted 161 million members as of March 2012, is also dealing with the PR fallout of a separate discovery that its calendar application automatically captures and transmits user information in plain text to the company (LinkedIn says this is a feature, not a bug).
All in all, not a great day for LinkedIn. For users, a password change couldn’t hurt.
(H/T: The Next Web)
