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LeakedIn: Check if your LinkedIn password was leaked with this tool

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About the author: SOAR: The Southern Oregon Artist's Resource is a directory of Southern Oregon artists, artisans and those who serve them and calendar of their art events, and Art Matters!, our blog posting Southern Oregon art events and matters of interest to artists, enthusiasts and patrons of the arts near and far. SOAR was created and is maintained by art advocate and web designer Hannah West in Jacksonville, Oregon to promote our diverse and talented arts community to our visitors and the rest of the world.

We and many artists in the Rogue Valley use LinkedIn to advance our business networks. We found this article quite by accident and posted it asap since it’s information that might be vital to many of our friends and colleagues. We went ahead and used the LeakedIn tool and found our password had NOT been cracked, partly out of concern for the safety of our own data and partly to “go first” in case anyone gets sketched out about using the tool. We feel thenextweb.com is trustworthy, but thought it might make you feel safe to get another little peek at the message the tool uses so you feel better about checking your password with it. Details below: And by the way – if you haven’t done it yet, change your LinkedIn password and do it now!

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June 6th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Art Matters..., The Business of Art, to Artists | Comments are closed