Yahoo hacked (again)

[DrLeftover]

Just go change your password.



Again.

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.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/12/tech/web/yahoo-users-hacked/

 

[Jazzy]

I changed my passwords.



What I find odd is that Yahoo didn't have a message on their site regarding this.

Right now, I cannot even get Yahoo to load. Not sure if it's on my end or theirs.

 

[Evil Eye]

Wonder how they did it...

Right now, I cannot even get Yahoo to load. Not sure if it's on my end or theirs.

Working for me.

Here's a handy link http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

 

[Jazzy]

Wonder how they did it...

Working for me.

Here's a handy link http://www.downforev...neorjustme.com/

Thank you so very much! I have this bookmarked.

 

[Evil Eye]

No problem

Wonder how they did it...

Looks like I can answer my own question now: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18811300

Good news, people, the hackers had it easy!

You know what SQL injection is? It's pretty much the easiest thing to prevent! Isn't it nice to see how much they care?

Worse still, plain text passwords! No one should be able to get your password, not even Yahoo. Storing passwords like this is really, really, really bad.



Sorry for the little rant.

 

[Jazzy]

So, it wasn't only Yahoo:

According to US security firm Trustedsec, the compromised passwords were associated with a variety of email addresses including those from yahoo.com, gmail.com and aol.com.

It still makes me angry that Yahoo did not put an announcement on their site.