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450,000 Yahoo passwords leaked -- check if yours is amongst them

article published on 12 July, 2012

Today more than 450,000 login details for Yahoo have been leaked. A hacking collective that calls themselves D33Ds Company has taken responsibility of the breach. D33Ds Company told Ars Technica that they used SQL injection technique for one of the Yahoo's subdomains. Their intention was to bring up the security concerns on subdomains. The hackers posted all of the 453,492 plain text ... [ read the full article ]

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JST1946
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_ 		12. July 2012 @ 09:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks for the information.Yesterday I had to change my password thankfully it wasn't related to this problem.
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bigdan45
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_ 		12. July 2012 @ 10:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Whew, luckily mine wasn't one of them.
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LordRuss
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_ 		12. July 2012 @ 12:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
For all those little things I do (or have to redo), thankfully this wasn't one of them...

And in return... THANKS AD!!! Had I not seen this article I would have not known this to be an issue!

Like me & the old lady - some people & places don't like to air their dirty laundry, I suppose.
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Mr_Bill06
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_ 		12. July 2012 @ 12:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yes thank you AD, and I am happy to know my email and password are safe. Well who really knows maybe they have more email and passwords but only released so many? I think if Yahoo does not fix this issue we will see more account and passwords released. I don't care much for Yahoo mail I always find you get spam even before you use your email. That's what my account with them is for, so I don't have to use my main email and get spam.

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JST1946
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_ 		12. July 2012 @ 12:42 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yes I know what your talking about there.Yahoo spam mail.
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dmanpsp
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_ 		13. July 2012 @ 07:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
where do you check?
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Mr_Bill06
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_ 		13. July 2012 @ 08:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by dmanpsp:
 where do you check?
Bottom of the article where it says "To see if you should be changing your passwords visit:" and below that is the link.
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zdamian
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_ 		13. July 2012 @ 11:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks! I actually received a copy of the list from another source, and did my checks. Thankfully mine was not amongst those compromised.

It is amazing to see how many people have really simple and easy-to-guess passwords! In this day and age, where your email address ties you in to all manner of services, people should really do better with their passwords!
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Mr_Bill06
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_ 		13. July 2012 @ 13:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I found the list and there is more like 739,853 leaked email and passwords. There are a lot of email addresses not from Yahoo!, there are several form Gmail, Hotmail and others in the list.
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_ 		13. July 2012 @ 15:36 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Pays to have more than one password :p I only use my Yahoo email for bogus registrations(so spam goes there), and craigslist. Looks like mine wasn't breached anyway :)

Thanks AD :D
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fandr78
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_ 		13. July 2012 @ 17:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by efdfsdwfsdas:
 I dont know why people still use Yahoo anyway
whats the difference?
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