A 2012 LinkedIn data breach has turned out to be far more extensive than originally believed, Motherboard reports. When the social network was hacked in 2012, 6.5 million encrypted passwords were posted online. Now, a hacker by the name of “Peace” is trying to sell what is purported to be the account information of 117 million LinkedIn users, including their email addresses and passwords. The hacker is selling the data on the dark Web for 5 bitcoin, equaling $2,200. The data has been also obtained by hacked data search engine LeakedSource, which said of the 167 million accounts taken in 2012, 117 million had both emails and passwords. LeakedSource claims to have cracked “90 percent of the passwords in 72 hours.” LinkedIn has posted a response to the news and will issue a full password reset. 
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