The Russian hacker who stole nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords on Wednesday has also looted dating site eHarmony, coming away with 1.5 million passwords, the Wall is reporting.



The person behind the attack is a Russian hacker known as dwdm, and the mysterious user posted the passwords, without usernames, online for fellow hackers to decipher.

LinkedIn has more than 160million users in 200 countries and nine million in the UK, and whilst eHarmony is considerably smaller with 20million accounts, user confidence in the these networks has been justifiably shaken.
eHarmony blogged:
"Please be assured that eHarmony uses robust security measures, including password hashing and data encryption, to protect our members’ personal information."

The professionals' social media site has come under intense scrutiny since the hack, as it emerged that visitors to the LinkedIn homepage were shown a fake log in form that attempts to trick users into giving away their email password.

"We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this has caused our members. We take the security of our members very seriously." said Vincente Silveira on the company's blog."

Chrysalis recruiters regularly use LinkedIn as a means of making new connections with peers and groups in the digital industry, as well as use accounts as candidate profiles to build a portfolio for that role.

LinkedIn and eHarmony are calling for users to change their passwords and create stronger ones as soon as possible.