Your Yahoo account might have been hacked
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- Science & Technology
- Friday, 13 July 2012 15:11
- Published on Friday, 13 July 2012 15:11
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Gujarat Global News Network, Mumbai
Internet giant Yahoo has confirmed that more than 400,000 Yahoo user names and passwords were stolen and published on the Web.
A hacking group by the name of D33Ds Company posted 453,492 account credentials in plain text on a public website, claiming that it did so as a "wake-up call" rather than a threat to Yahoo.
Yahoo spokeswoman Dana Lengkeek said "an older file" had been stolen from Yahoo Contributor Network, an Internet publishing service that Yahoo purchased about two years ago. It helps writers, photographers and videographers to sell their work over the Web.
"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," she said.
The hacker group has called their act as a wakeup call for Yahoo rather than an attempt to cause damage to the company. A note posted by the group states “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. There have been many security holes exploited in webservers belonging to Yahoo! Inc. that have caused far greater damage than our disclosure. Please do not take them lightly. The subdomain and vulnerable parameters have not been posted to avoid further damage.”
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