An unspecified number of Yahoo Mail users have had their usernames and passwords compromised, the company announced late Thursday. The hack appears to have taken place via a compromised third party database, and Yahoo has taken the precaution of resetting the passwords of affected users
"Our ongoing investigation shows that malicious computer software used the list of usernames and passwords to access Yahoo Mail accounts," Yahoo senior VP Jay Rossiter said in a Tumblr post. "The information sought in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts’ most recent sent emails ... we have no evidence that they were obtained directly from Yahoo’s systems." Read more...
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