If you have a LinkedIn or eHarmony account, you need to change your password.

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June 8th, 2012

LinkedIn has been hacked.  6.5 million password hashes have been stolen and hackers are feverishly working to crack those password hashes.  It is estimated that over 60% of stolen passwords have already been cracked.   1.5 million decrypted password from eHarmony have also been published.

 Go change your LinkedIn and/or eHarmony password now.  But more than that, if you used that same password anywhere else, change it there too.

You might want to consider using a password management tool.  W do not recommend password managers that are built into browsers, but ones that are stand-alone like KeePass, passwordsafe, or 1Password and that keep your passwords in an encrypted vault are very useful.  Such a tool will allow you to have a different password (a strong one) for every site, but not have to remember them; you only need to remember the password to your password vault and it will insert the password when needed.

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