Yahoo hack steals 400,000 passwords. Is yours on the list?

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2012/0712/Yahoo-hack-steals-400-000-passwords.-Is-yours-on-the-list

by curthopkins • 14 years ago

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Zenst• 14 years ago

This story already been covered I thought. People pick silly passwords, people pick great passwords. Hosts use expoitable systems, passwords leaked. Passwords leaked in clear text indicating no encyrption/hashing or anything approaching the 21st century. Article then goes on to explain how to protect yourself and yet ignores the aspect that you could of changed your password daily and used 200 characters which would require the dexterity of a hamster on ridlin just to be able to type - that it would of made no difference at all as they hosted on a insecure server that was expliotable by a type of expliot that is inexcusable and held them in plain text. Not sure there is much to say realy apart from if it had been RIM then there would be the standard addition of how the company is doomed, but as it's yahoo then non of that is mentioned or even touched upon in any shape or way.

treyp• 14 years ago

Direct link: http://dazzlepod.com/yahoo/

redwood• 14 years ago

It always bothers me how the focus is on making a robust password when the real world security risk is not brute force attack but rather phishing. It always has been (even in the days when hackers would call 'Jim' down at the control center for a reminder of the password).

protolif• 14 years ago

I thought that Yahoo was only used by the elderly.

Yahoo hack steals 400,000 passwords. Is yours on the list?

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