Hacker to sell 117 mn LinkedIn credentials

A Russian hacker named ‘Peace’ is selling 117 million user IDs and password details of LinkedIn users to a website ‘Dark Web’. The  hacker would be paid 5Bitcoins approximately $2200 by the illegal website  known as ‘The Real Deal’. LinkedIn has not officially mad any announcement regarding the hack. However, though most passwords were protected with SHA1 algorithm, around 90% were hacked.