Friday, September 23, 2016

Confirmed: the 500 million Yahoo-log-stolen – change your password bums! – IDG.see

In a gigantic infringement against Yahoo cyber criminals managed to get over the login information from the at least 500 million users. The company blames the intrusion of the hackers sponsored by the state.

Data: 200 million Yahoo users was hacked

the Name, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords belonging to the data may have been stolen in the attack, according to Yahoo occurred late 2014. But the company reported about the incident only yesterday after a stolen database was placed for sale on the black market last month.

also Read: 68 million Dropbox log-stolen 2012 – is yours one of them?

It is in connection with Yahoo discovered this as a you also should have discovered the greater the intrusion. It is still unclear whether there is any connection between them.

We recommend all users that have not changed the password since 2014 to do this, says Yahoo, which is also asking its users to examine if any kind of suspicious activity occurred on their accounts.

Yahoo may have a significant portion of its user database in other countries, like the united states, but we want to remind our readers that services such as Flickr and Tumblr also within the scope of the hacking.

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