The passwords and usernames of more than 400,000 contributors to the Yahoo Voices website have been stolen and posted on the Internet. The hack was carried out by an organization calling itself “D33Ds Company,” which posted the data on the Web. The D33Ds Web page containing the data was down when checked at press time. However, the text file is reportedly available through torrents. The passwords were stored in clear text and not encrypted, according to TrustedSec, which disclosed news of the hack The hackers apparently used an SQL injection attack.
Yahoo Voice Crack Spills 400K+ Usernames, Passwords
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 12, 2012 11:44 AMThe passwords and usernames of more than 400,000 contributors to the Yahoo Voices website have been stolen and posted on the Internet. The hack was carried out by an organization calling itself “D33Ds Company,” which posted the data on the Web. The D33Ds Web page containing the data was down when checked at press time. However, the text file is reportedly available through torrents. The passwords were stored in clear text and not encrypted, according to TrustedSec, which disclosed news of the hack The hackers apparently used an SQL injection attack.