Are you a Yahoo user? Your email might be hacked and your password might be one of the 45300 passwords leaked recently by the Hackers group calling D33Ds Company.
Yahoo has been just suffered from a database attack which leaks 45300 encrypted account passwords online. The hacker group itself posted online that the passwords were from the file pilfered from the Sunnyvale, California-based Internet Pioneer, describing "as a wake-up call not as a threat". They also said that they were able to leak through the SQL injection, a common method of attacking that the Sony suffers in 2011. Some other sources also says that the accounts were from the Yahoo voice service.
Yahoo confirmed that a file from Contributor Network containing 4.5k Yahoo and other company user account and passwords was compromised on Wednesday. Also Yahoo said that only 5 percent of leaked passwords were valid.
"We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take 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." posted by D33Ds company in their site.
The original website of D33Ds company (d33ds.co) has been down from early Thursday, however the text file can still available through torrent site such as Media fire.
Other accounts like gmail, AOL and others may be also affected.
As Yahoo ! says you can get the security tips from the site security.yahoo.com
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