Yahoo breach extends beyond yahoo to gmail, hotmail, AOL users. is it a threat or a wake up call? A group of hackers, known as the D33D Company, posted online the user names and passwords for what appeared to be 453,492 accounts, not limited to yahoo voice.
Security researchers at Rapid7, a security company, analyzed the dumped account information and found that it included account information not just for Yahoo users but for Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, Comcast, MSN, SBC Global, Verizon, BellSouth and Live.com users. Marcus Carey, a researcher at Rapid7, found that among the data were some 106,000 Gmail accounts, 55,000 Hotmail accounts and 25,000 AOL accounts.”
The hackers claimed to have stolen the passwords using a hacking technique called an SQL injection, which exploits a software vulnerability.
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