LinkedIn Corp., owner of the world's biggestprofessional-networking website, said that it's looking intounconfirmed reports of stolen passwords.

“Our team continues to investigate, but at this time, we'restill unable to confirm that any security breach has occurred,” theMountain View, California-based company said on its Twitter Inc.micro-blogging site.

LinkedIn sent its first tweet this morning telling users that itwas looking into the issue and followed up at about 11:20 a.m., NewYork time, saying nothing was confirmed. A spokeswoman, ErinO'Harra, said LinkedIn will continue to update users onTwitter.

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