News of ‘hacking and leaking’ of personal information on the net are getting more and more common these days. Only weeks ago we saw 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords getting leaked out over internet after an attack on the site.
This week, Yahoo has announced that its servers have been attacked and account information of 450,000 of its users, mostly from Yahoo Voice, has been leaked by a group of hackers called D33DS. Hacker group posted login information of some 450,000 accounts over internet. The accounts of yahoo on several other sites have been affected too.
Interestingly, it has turned out that the act was carried out not for any negative purpose but to ‘warn’ Yahoo of the faults on its Web servers and network.
TrustedSec says the hack was executed using SQL injection attacks that are commonly used to hack into databases, and security expert Anders Nilsson has an analysis of the data that is linked below.
Spokeswoman for Yahoo, Dana Lengkeek said that “We are fixing the vulnerability that led to the disclosure of this data, changing the passwords of the affected Yahoo users and notifying companies whose user accounts may have been compromised”.
Yahoo said that only 5% of its users had valid passwords and the users should change them on a regular basis. They said that they will work on the issue that caused this incident to happen so that it won’t happen again in the future.
This incident proves that although organizations pay serious attention on these matters, still no one’s information is completely protected on the Internet.
Oh no….Nothing is trust worthy website now if yahoo is facing such problem….
It is Yahoo Voice, not the full site.
Web security is a big issue…
Yahoo , Ohhhhh, what to do now……
My account is safed.. thnx GOD
Passwords were not encrypted???
Encrypted or not, the passwords are dumb:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112961607570158342254/posts/d3ArEEvMsaV
Kuch Nahii Hoo Gaya :P
wow 450K lots of info
yahoo is strong , it will again get all password, do you now our president zardari,s website also hacked by someone ?, now save
@ Admin: When LinkedIn passwords were compromised, we could check whether our own account is compromised. In yahoo’s case, any such link?
Yes umari u can check go to mashable.com yesterday they post article how to check whether ur account comprosed or bot
Very strange that yohoo level website hacked ? .. More and more care for website security is required.
what about your site?
What should we do now?
ooo noooo…bad newzzzzz
goodness, i’m saved but thinking about those poor souls whose password has been hacked. Hopefully they’ve rested their ids already. I’m agree with authour. It leads me to the bit that Not a single thing on this earth which on the net is safe.
hi agree..because last month my yahoo account was also compromised….auto emails were being sent to my contacts…
Yahoo is still far behind gmail in terms of security…i think.