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<span style="font-weight: bold">Hackers post 450K credentials pilfered from Yahoo</span>
Source: CNET
by Steven Musil
Credentials posted in plain text appear to have originated from the Web company's Yahoo Voices platform. The hackers say they intended the data dump as a "wake-up call."
Yahoo has been the victim of a security breach that yielded hundreds of thousands of login credentials stored in plain text.
The hacked data, posted to the hacker site D33D Company, contained more than 453,000 login credentials and appears to have originated from the Web pioneer's network. The hackers, who said they used a union-based SQL injection technique to penetrate the Yahoo subdomain, intended the data dump to be a "wake-up call."
Read the rest at CNET
<span style="font-weight: bold">Hackers post 450K credentials pilfered from Yahoo</span>
Source: CNET
by Steven Musil
Credentials posted in plain text appear to have originated from the Web company's Yahoo Voices platform. The hackers say they intended the data dump as a "wake-up call."
Yahoo has been the victim of a security breach that yielded hundreds of thousands of login credentials stored in plain text.
The hacked data, posted to the hacker site D33D Company, contained more than 453,000 login credentials and appears to have originated from the Web pioneer's network. The hackers, who said they used a union-based SQL injection technique to penetrate the Yahoo subdomain, intended the data dump to be a "wake-up call."
Read the rest at CNET
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