It was just yesterday when more than 6.5 million passwords of Linkedin got hacked and then posted on a Russian website. Even though the passwords were encrypted, more than 300,000 passwords are said to have been already decrypted. Now we are hearing another leak from a popular online service. Last.fm which lets you listen to free music with internet radio has reported about a possible leak of user passwords.
 The Last.fm Team made a blog post announcing this.
We are currently investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords. This follows recent password leaks on other sites, as well as information posted online. As a precautionary measure, we’re asking all our users to change their passwords immediately.
They even confirmed this password leak from their twitter account.
We’re investigating a security issue with user passwords. As a precaution, we recommend you change your password: last.fm/passwordsecuri…
— Last.fm (@lastfm) June 7, 2012
More details about this leak are still awaited. We will keep updating this post as we get more information about this leak. So, if you are a last.fm user, you are advised to change your account password now. You can change your last.fm password using the steps below.
- Just log in to Last.fm and change your password on the settings page
- If you can’t remember your password or the password doesn’t work, then just reset it without logging in.
Source: Last.fm
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