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that the passwords were now likely to be in the hands of criminals"; "Vicente Silveira, a director at LinkedIn, confirmed the hack on the company's blog on Wednesday afternoon and said that LinkedIn was taking steps to deal with the situation. He wrote that those with compromised passwords will notice that their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid" vs "Vicente Silveira, Director at LinkedIn, confirmed the hack on the company's blog Wednesday afternoon and outlined steps that LinkedIn is taking to deal with the situation. He wrote that those with compromised passwords will notice that their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid."; "LinkedIn said it sent emails to members whose passwords were affected, explaining how to reset them since they were no longer valid on the site" vs "LinkedIn said it sent emails to members whose passwords were affected, explaining how to reset them since they were no longer valid on the site."
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the breach was genuine and warned that the passwords were now likely to be in the hands of criminals"; "Vicente Silveira, a LinkedIn director, confirmed the hack on the company's blog on Wednesday afternoon and said that LinkedIn was taking steps to deal with the situation. He said that those with compromised passwords will notice that their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid" vs "Vicente Silveira, Director at LinkedIn, confirmed the hack on the company's blog Wednesday afternoon and outlined steps that LinkedIn is taking to deal with the situation. He wrote that those with compromised passwords will notice that their LinkedIn account password is no longer valid."
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put a tick on an article you created, expanded, or nominated. That's the definition of conflict of interest. Let's let Nikkimaria, who has identified the problems, say whether they've been settled to her satisfaction. I've found that she's quite happy to do so once the paraphrasing has been fixed.
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Yes, it was, but no, it hasn't. Compare: "Graham Cluley, one of the members of internet security firm Sophos, said he believed the breach was genuine and warned that the passwords were now likely to be in the hands of criminals" vs "Graham Cluley, of internet security firm Sophos, said he believed
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Copyvio. Compare: "Graham Cluley, member of internet security firm Sophos, said he believed the breach was genuine and warned that the passwords were now likely to be in the hands of criminals" vs "Graham Cluley, of internet security firm Sophos, said he believed the breach was genuine and warned
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Better, though there's still a bit of close paraphrasing - for example, current FN10. Also, I don't think "the website was hacked on behalf of the company" is really what you wanted to say.
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A side note: now that you've added yourself as an expander, Muboshgu, you've put yourself in line for a QPQ as well, I'm afraid. No good deed goes unpunished, or something like that...
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I just put every source in the article through the duplication detector and rephrased a few close paraphrasings that remained.
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Yeah, that was bad rephrasing there. I took care of the rest of it from FN 10. Should be fine.
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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below.
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I had modified it and therefore they longer hold copyright. Read it up: "I had modified it".
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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Yep, you're right. And all I was looking for was a simple nom... – 
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on June 7, 2012, resulting in the release of over 6 million user passwords?
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Don't close this just yet. I'll take over and rewrite it. – 
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The problems are fixed and this can now be promoted. Thanks Muboshgu!
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Hook is good and interesting..article is long enough...good to go..:)
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Muboshgu, thanks for the QPQ. I very much appreciate it.
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Both the article and the hook seems okay. Good to go.
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