In 2012 a big cyber assault with the aid of a hacker named “Peace” exploited over 117 million LinkedIn users’ passwords. After the dirt settled from the initial attack, new protocols had been put in area and the breach used to be all however forgotten in the public eye, the equal hacker reared their head again. Nearly five years later, “Peace” started out releasing the stolen password statistics of the equal LinkedIn users from the until now hack.

With millions of users’ facts (or billions, in the case of Facebook) floating around the web, the want for tight protection from social media structures is obvious. Facebook on my own has pronounced receiving greater than 600,000 security hack attempts each day. (Although that is nothing compared to the NSA’s 300 million tried hacks every day.


infographic by:www.varonis.com