6.5 million hashed passwords were posted on a Russian hacker forum earlier this week. LinkedIn has not indicated how the breach occurred or how many passwords may have been compromised. LinkedIn says it has implemented salting to protect newly updated passwords and also passwords that have not been compromised. LinkedIn has disabled all the compromised passwords and is instructing affected members how to access their accounts to reset their passwords. The worst policy for companies is to store passwords in clear text, experts say. Almost anyone can use tables to decrypt almost any SHA-1 hash hash and recover it in plain text in a matter of minutes.”]