Since the recent breach of reader accounts at Gawker Media has apparently trickled down to a number of other sites, including LinkedIn, Yahoo, Blizzard, and Amazon, these companies - as well as some others - have reportedly issued password resets to users they believe may possibly have been affected.

The move underscores the attempts that users and companies are making to sweep up the mess caused by this weekend's breach of approximately 1.3 million reader accounts at Gawker Media.

Noting that LinkedIn had identified a "very small fraction" of its members whose accounts were potentially hacked as part of Gawker breach fallout, the company said that the affected users had been sent instructions for a password reset.

Talking about the move, Vincente Silveira, LinkedIn's principal product manager, said in a blog post: "As we closely monitored the situation, we decided it was imperative to take preemptive action to help ensure that those leaked passwords were not being used to attack any LinkedIn members."

While Yahoo and Blizzard have confirmed that they have asked some of their users to reset their passwords; Amazon has yet to officially confirm the move, though there are indications that the company is also doing the same.

A Yahoo spokesperson said that the password-reset instructions to some users were part of company's ongoing security measures; and added that the company "does this periodically to ensure the security of users."