The Hacker News effect seems to have taken the forums off-line. If you need a quick DDOS and don't have a botnet handy, just post the link here!

Might also be the fact it's all over twitter.

I just looked into the file (combo_not.txt). There are only hashes. Who decided that the hashes posted in the forum are related to linkedin in any way ? Thank you.

Those paranoid tinfoil-hat wearing lunatics that generate absurdly long unique random passwords for every site are wringing their hands with glee because they found the hash of their LinkedIn password in the file. You're welcome.