Monday, 13 October 2025

In response to reports that the passwords and email account information of 117M LinkedIn users are reportedly for sale:

John Gunn, VP of Communications, VASCO Data Security comments: If the data being offered is verified, this represents a massive risk to countless organizations. LinkedIn is work related, so many employees of an enterprise will use their exact work credentials, username and password for their LinkedIn account. This means that the hackers and their eventual buyers could have the login credentials for many millions of enterprises employees. No one should ever use their work password for any other account and everyone should be using a second factor of authentication when security matters.

It may seem obvious, but to be safe, everyone with a LinkedIn account should reset their password, now.

Talking Point
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It has been reported that a hacker is trying to sell the account information, including emails and passwords, of 117 million LinkedIn users. The hacker, known as Peace, is selling the data on the dark web illegal marketplace, The Real Deal, for 5 bitcoin (around $2,200). Hacked data search engine, LeakedSource, also claims to have obtained the data. Both Peace and the one of the people behind LeakedSource said that there are 167 million accounts in the hacked database. Of those, around 117 million have both emails and encrypted passwords.

Industry News
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More than 700 people have now successfully completed safety training since the Door & Hardware Federation (DHF) first set up its Safety Diploma scheme.

This number is set to rise significantly following the expansion of the scheme to cover a wider range of industry sectors. The DHF pioneered the Safety Diploma scheme with the introduction of training for those responsible for the safety of automatically controlled powered gates.

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