Yahoo has reportedly fixed the security blemish that provided hackers an access
to passwords of almost 450,000 users. Yahoo confirmed it through its blogpost
on Friday (July 13).
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According to the referred blogpost:
Yahoo! revealed that the data of those users were compromised who were
registered members of Associated Content prior to May 2010, when it was
acquired by Yahoo! and presently known as Yahoo!
Contributor Network.
“We have taken swift action and have
now fixed this vulnerability, deployed additional security measures for
affected Yahoo! users, enhanced our underlying security controls and
are in the process of notifying affected users. In addition, we will
continue to take significant measures to protect our users and their data,”
the blogpost revealed further.
Apart from Yahoo’s efforts to counter the hackers’ attack experts think that
inter-linked ID’s might also be on risk because Yahoo Contributor Network facilitates
users to sign in through a Yahoo, Google or Facebook ID. This means that
if you use log in to any user service provided by Yahoo via any other ID such
as Gmail or Facebook, you should also change your password for that account as
it could have been compromised.
According to earlier reports, a hacker group dubbed as D33DS Company, broke
into an undisclosed subdomain of Yahoo’s website where they recovered
unencrypted account details and then posted these details online.
The Yahoo hacking is the second biggest so far this year; after LinkedIn was
hacked earlier this year restricted almost 6 million users to lose access to
their accounts. While insufficient tech security provided by these
Internet giants are a major cause of concern, the substandard and ordinary
passwords chosen by users are also contributed to such disasters.
According to an online analysis by CNET, that passwords of more than 2,200
of hacked accounts were “123456″ and 780 of the passwords were just “password.”
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