According to the security firm TrustedSec, a hacking group known as D33D Company picked up the passwords from Yahoo Voices, the Sunnyvale, Calif.,-based company’s crowd-sourced publishing platform. Yahoo Voices, formerly known as Associated Content, invites users to submit articles through the Yahoo Contributor Network.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Yahoo Accounts Hacked
from the Washington Post article: only 5% of the passwords were valid (really?), and the passwords and usernames were stored in plain text (Really?). Another reason to make sure you don't use the same password for different services. One suggestion - use a passphrase that includes some part of the name of the service. From the article: