Over 450,000 passwords stolen from Yahoo: the Yahoo Voice service appears to have been hit by a targeted hacker attack.
Some details are missing, but the news is confirmed: Yahoo! has suffered a hacker attack, and the consequence is that more than 450,000 stolen passwords have ended up online.
The blog TrustedSec started discussing it, and it was then picked up by sources like Mashable.
Finally, if there was still a need for further confirmation, the hacker action was widely claimed by the collective D33Ds Company, which disseminated usernames and passwords online, releasing the access credentials for 453,492 people to Yahoo services in plain text.
This is the exact number of compromised Yahoo! accounts, solely for the purpose of demonstrating the system’s weakness.
The D33Ds Company collective has indeed stated that the action was not intended as a real threat but as a way to warn those managing Yahoo’s servers, which are affected by many bugs and a subdomain security system that is too easily “exploitable.”
Apparently, everything started from the Yahoo Voice service, used to make free and low-cost calls via one’s PC.
Considering that many users utilize the same access credentials for multiple services, the only useful and practical advice at the moment is to first change your password on Yahoo and, as a precaution, also on other sites—even those not connected to Yahoo—where you have used the same identification parameters.
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