Re: Genuine accounts?
A better approach would be to publish "active" accounts only in user base statistics (those accessed in the last three months for example). People paying for linkedin accounts should get a pass. They deserve to use their accounts as much or as little as they like.
On the other hand, the duff and dead free accounts should not be counted as active, for truth in advertising, if nothing else. Web hit counters that should report unique or new visits only face a similar dilemma when they don't discard crawlers and other bots from their stats.
Anyway this latest news may cause a few of those 117 (164 or 167) million pwned LI users to visit their accounts again to change their passwords. I certainly did and I am a Premium user.
For more fun and games check Troy Hunter's https://www.troyhunt.com/ to see where your email has shown up in data-breach land. Quite eye-opening, some decent blogs as well.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
