Worried that your LinkedIn password may be a part of the nearly 6.5 million compromised on Wednesday? Password management firm LastPass has released a secure tool to see if your password was among the stolen.News first surfaced about the security breach after a Russian hacker said he stole 6,458,020 encrypted LinkedIn...

A user on a Russian forum has claimed to have downloaded 6.46 million user hashed passwords from LinkedIn.It looks as though some of the weaker passwords — around 300,000 of them — may have been cracked already. Other users have been seen reaching out to fellow hackers in an apparent bid to seek help in cracking the encryption.Finnish...