Yahoo and other email accounts hacked

**Reba** · 07-13-2012, 07:54 AM

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Yahoo confirmed 400,000 user names from one of its services were hacked Thursday.

The company said that although the breached accounts include user names from Yahoo and other companies, only 5 percent of the accounts had valid passwords.

Yahoo said it is working to fix the vulnerability and is changing the passwords of the affected users. The company also said it is notifying other companies whose users may have been affected -- which may include people who use AOL, Gmail, Hotmail and many others.

The hack happened Wednesday, according to Yahoo, which also said it was an older file for Yahoo! Contributor Network that was breached.

"We apologize to affected users," the company said in an email statement delivered promptly Thursday morning. "We encourage users to change their passwords on a regular basis and also familiarize themselves with our online safety tips at security.yahoo.com."

A hacker group called D33D claimed it was responsible for the hack, and said it hoped Yahoo and the others involved would see this as a wake-up call rather than a threat.

Among the top five recurring passwords in the stolen batch were "123456," "password," "welcome," "ninja" and "abc123."

If you have a Yahoo! Contributor Network account, it's best that you change your password on both that account and your email provider's account, too.

Yahoo confirms 400,000 email addresses hacked - chicagotribune.com

Yahoo Password Hack: Where To Find A List Of Hacked Email Accounts - International Business Times

diehardbiker · 07-13-2012, 09:32 AM

I have always said, no such thing as fool proof security, and Im not that surprised and yeah I still use Yahoo!.

Good thing I don't use same password for everything.

PowerON · 07-13-2012, 09:57 AM

Also happen on at&t and AOL. Don't use all same password, it's easy for suckers to lose their.

caz12 · 07-13-2012, 11:30 AM

omg i use same password for everything....i scared stiff put my debit card details on net which is pain cos love to shop on net...i guess i a sucker,i better change some

**SneakerNet** · 07-14-2012, 11:50 AM

Yeah... it's bad enough to destroy people lives after they worked hard to save up money and suddenly get stolen.

Other than that, it's so much fun reading people password...
"rambo"? Okaaaaay...

07-13-2012, 09:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
diehardbiker Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: In back of Superduty Posts: 11,249	I have always said, no such thing as fool proof security, and Im not that surprised and yeah I still use Yahoo!. Good thing I don't use same password for everything. __________________ J-MAC's quote: "People who try and fail are more superior than people who don't try at all" "If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny." Thomas Jefferson (1778) Avatar picture is Cape Hatteras light house in OBX.

07-13-2012, 09:57 AM	#3 (permalink)
PowerON Registered User Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: 37.5, 126.9 Posts: 10,321 Blog Entries: 5	Also happen on at&t and AOL. Don't use all same password, it's easy for suckers to lose their. __________________ • [Illustrator.Blog-alloon.com] • Don't shoot me! I'm only blogger!

07-14-2012, 11:50 AM	#5 (permalink)
SneakerNet My IQ: 12 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: 26°53'41.95" N 41°40'50.62" W Posts: 1,953	Yeah... it's bad enough to destroy people lives after they worked hard to save up money and suddenly get stolen. Other than that, it's so much fun reading people password... "rambo"? Okaaaaay... __________________ No trees were harmed in the sending of this email; however, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

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07-13-2012, 11:30 AM	#4 (permalink)
caz12 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 2,814	omg i use same password for everything....i scared stiff put my debit card details on net which is pain cos love to shop on net...i guess i a sucker,i better change some