• Yahoo hacked, 450,000 passwords posted online
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Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/12/tech/web/yahoo-users-hacked/index.html[/url] [quote] Hackers posted online what they say is login information for more than 450,000 Yahoo users. The hack, which of course was conducted anonymously, was meant to be a warning, according to the Web page where the documents were dumped. "We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat," a note on the page said. "There have been many security holes exploited in Web servers belonging to Yahoo! Inc. that have caused far greater damage than our disclosure. Please do not take them lightly." The statement adds that the "subdomain and vulnerable parameters" that were used to hack the site were not posted "to avoid further damage." Yahoo investigating CEO's record The Web page where the data was dumped was offline for much of Thursday morning. Yahoo confirmed on Thursday the hack of Yahoo Voices, part of its news service, saying "approximately 400,000" usernames and passwords were stolen. But in a written statement, the company said that less than 5% of the breached Yahoo accounts had valid passwords. "At Yahoo! we take security very seriously and invest heavily in protective measures to ensure the security of our users and their data across all our products," the statement said. "We are fixing the vulnerability that led to the disclosure of this data, changing the passwords of the affected Yahoo! users and notifying the companies whose users accounts may have been compromised." Yahoo apologized in the statement and urged users to change their passwords on a regular basis. Voices is an online publishing tool. Formerly known as Associated Content, it was acquired by Yahoo in 2010. Starting in its days as an independent company, many have criticized it as a "content farm," a website that cranks out low-quality content designed to game search engines like Google to get page views and sell advertising. Perhaps due to the similarity of the names, some early reports from security analysts and others identified the hack as impacting users of Yahoo Voice, the site's Web phone service. As it has after previous hacks, tech blog CNET broke down the list to find the most frequently used passwords. Many of them were embarrassingly easy to crack. Sequential lists of numbers, like "12345," were used 2,295 times, and "password" was used 780 times, out of the 450,000 passwords. [/quote] For the people that actually still use this shitty ass email service...change your password.
Pfft, I only use Yahoo for fantasy sports.
changed mine in a jiffy is there an list of stole passwords for those who want to know they're compromised?
These passwords are probably years old from the accounts that no one uses anymore.
My god, how many corporations don't hash passwords?
I use yahoo, just because i am to lazy to switch, i have alot of accounts on that email. Changed my password
[QUOTE=Scrimp;36744043]These passwords are probably years old from the accounts that no one uses anymore.[/QUOTE] Or the Nigerian scammers that use Yahoo for their scams.
[QUOTE=jetboy;36744045]My god, how many corporations don't hash passwords?[/QUOTE] "We're invincible so we don't need to :downs:"
Ah fuck my mum could be affected she uses Yahoo mail, but it's Yahoo7 mail, still need to check if she has been compromised that email is kinda important
Fuck, my dad and mom are gonna be screwed. I should change them to GMAIL badly.
Changed mine. I only use it occasionally but its still nice to be safe.
[QUOTE=Ownederd;36744026]changed mine in a jiffy is there an list of stole passwords for those who want to know they're compromised?[/QUOTE] [URL="http://dazzlepod.com/yahoo/"]Yeah[/URL].
Still use it because i have a shitload of old game accounts on it, and can't switch them over to my new email.
Welp, changed my details; now I feel more secure. Nonetheless I will keep an eye out and stay alert; hopefully whoever's doing this will get bored. Good job I was up at this hour otherwise things would've been bad; thank you Northernlion for the Binding of Isaac videos i've been watching.
This my friends is why any sane person would use Gmail with two-step verification.
Changed.
Done, aaaand done. But to be quite frank, I use a different password for every account.
I use a Yahoo account (rocketmail to be exact) because I have always used it and I find it very good. I have a Gmail account too, but I don't see much of a difference between the two.
[QUOTE=Scrimp;36744043]These passwords are probably years old from the accounts that no one uses anymore.[/QUOTE] Fuck.
I changed mine earlier before they confirmed this. I wasn't in the list to begin with tough.
i made a yahoo account years ago and never used it. But i went and deleted it anyways. (even though it's not on the list.)
Dammit Yahoo.
I'm ok.
Oh Yahoo? Oh well there goes all of my throw-away email accounts, like I give a shit.
Mums not affected, thank god
Who the hell uses Yahoo still?
Me.
[QUOTE=faze;36743891]Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/12/tech/web/yahoo-users-hacked/index.html[/url] For the people that actually still use this shitty ass email service...change your password.[/QUOTE] This means anyone with an ATT-provided email address, because apparently thoes dipshits think we want to use Yahoo mail. Le-sigh. [editline]12th July 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=VistaPOWA;36744805]Who the hell uses Yahoo still?[/QUOTE] Anyone with an ATt-provided email address. Which includes me. I've had the same address since I was 6 or 7 years old, I got it back when Bellsouth was a seperate entity, and up until last year it was ATT hosted. Now it's yahoo hosted, because apparently Yahoo is good in the eyes of ATT's execs? I don't know. I don't like the change. But I'm not getting rid of an email address I've had longer than most FPers have been alive.
Oh no, my Runescape account is in trouble! :v:
[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;36744805]Who the hell uses Yahoo still?[/QUOTE] I only have an account for IM
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