Friday, July 13, 2012

Security Alert for Yahoo Voice users.

Hackers posted what appear to be login credentials for more than 453,000 user accounts that they said they retrieved in plaintext from an unidentified service on Yahoo. 

To support their claim, the hackers posted what they said were the plaintext credentials for 453,492 Yahoo accounts, more than 2,700 database table or column names, and 298 MySQL variables, all of which they claim to have obtained in the exploit. "We hope that the parties responsible for managing the security of this subdomain will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat," a brief note at the end of the dump stated. (more)

Check here to see if you are on the list. Use your browser's search tool. If so, it's time to change your password... at every place you use it. ~ Kevin