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Cyber security is a lot like oxygen. You don’t really think about it, until it’s not there. Today, if you have a LinkedIn account, don’t pass go, don’t collect $200, go straight to your LinkedIn settings and change your password. All kidding aside, if you have a LinkedIn account, go directly to settings, which is located under your name on the upper right hand side of the browser window, and change your password. Why? Well for openers, hackers have posted 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords on a Russian website. Because of the way the passwords were encrypted, it is very, very easy to crack them – and, so, the safest thing you can do is change your LinkedIn password immediately. No one is quite sure how the hack occurred and LinkedIn has no comment, but every cyber-security professional I spoke to today said the same thing. Just go change your LinkedIn password. It’s the only way to protect your personal data.