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   Anonymous
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   http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2190981/social-network-formspring-hit-by-hackers

   Hackers snaffled 420,000 passwords from social network Formspring
   "But I'm much more impressed with how Formspring has handled this incident than, say, LinkedIn."

   http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2191084/hackers-claim-to-have-stolen-450-000-yahoo-logins

   Hackers claim to have stolen 450,000 Yahoo logins

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   https://www.trustedsec.com/july-2012/yahoo-voice-website-breached-400000-compromised/

   Yahoo! Voices Website Breached 400,000+ Compromised

   The most alarming part to the entire story was the fact that the passwords were stored completely unencrypted and the full 400,000+ usernames and passwords are now public. The method for the compromise was apparently a SQL Injection attack to extract the sensitive information from the database.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229084/Passwords_leaked_from_Yahoo_Boozy_preachy_angry_and_easy

   https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229042

   /Hackers_publish_over_450_000_emails_and_passwords_allegedly_stolen_from_Yahoo?taxonomyId=140

   http://blog.eset.com/2012/07/12/passwords-of-plenty-1-what-nearly-450000-leaked-yahoo-accounts-can-tell-us

   'Top Umpteen' lists of insecure, over-used, easily guessed passwords, I can't resist reproducing the top ten he extracted here

   http://pastebin.com/2D6bHGTa
   "Statistics of "450.000 leaked Yahoo accounts"

   https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229136/Yahoo_fixes_password_pilfering_bug_explains_who_s_at_risk

   Security experts continue to hammer Yahoo for storing usernames and passwords in plain text

   https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259249/three_steps_to_avoid_getting_hacked_like_yahoo.html#tk.hp_new

   Yahoo made three serious mistakes.

   Posted 12 years ago #

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