Microsoft announced it plans to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he expects the deal to close later this year and that the deal will close this year. LinkedIn was always mum about the 2012 breach, and never commented on whether it involved just the credentials related to 6.5 million password hashes that got posted to an underground password forum by a hacker who was seeking help in cracking them. P.F. Chang’s, Wendy’s, Target and TalkTalk suffered three separate breaches in 2015.”]
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