The social networking website LinkedIn was hacked Theft on June 5 , 2012 , and passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts were stolen Theft by Russian cybercriminals .

Vicente Silveira , the director of LinkedIn , confirmed Coming_to_believe , on behalf of the company , that the website was hacked Theft in its official blog .

LinkedIn said Statement , in an official statement Statement , that they would email Sending all its members with security instructions Education_teaching and instructions Education_teaching on how they could reset Change their passwords .

In May 2016 , LinkedIn discovered Know an additional 100 million email addresses and hashed passwords that claimed Statement to be additional data from the same 2012 breach .

In response Response , LinkedIn invalidated Change the passwords of all users that had not changed Change their passwords since 2012 .