LinkedIn today updated its users on the stolen password fiasco that arose last week in which 6.4 million passwords were illegally obtained and posted on a Russian Web site. According to a blog post from LinkedIn’s Vicente Silveira the company has received no reports that member accounts have been breached as a result of the stolen passwords. Silveira also said that the company is working with the FBI to “aggressively pursue the perpetrators of this crime.”

“First, it’s important to know that compromised passwords were not published with corresponding email logins,” Silveira wrote. “At the time they were initially published, the vast majority of those passwords remained hashed, i.e. encoded, but unfortunately a subset of the passwords was decoded. Again, we are not aware of any member information being published at any time in connection with the list of stolen passwords. The only information published was the passwords themselves.”

Interestingly, LinkedIn’s stock — a strong performer since its IPO last year — has continued to do well over the past five days despite the embarrassing breach.

 

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