Professional Social network LinkedIn has posted an update on the password leak that occurred this week

The LinkedIn Blog's latest post addresses what company is doing to protect its membership after over 3 millions user passwords were compromised. LinkedIn has posted an update on what it's doing to protect its members.

"First," the post says, "it's important to know that compromised passwords were not published with corresponding e-mail logins. At the time they were initially published, the vast majority of those passwords remained hashed, i.e., encoded, but unfortunately a subset of the passwords was decoded. Again, we are not aware of any member information being published at any time in connection with the list of stolen passwords. The only information published was the passwords themselves."