Lurker Posted September 23, 2016 Report Share Posted September 23, 2016 Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. In the past few months, over 1 Billion account credentials from popular social network sites, including LinkedIn, Tumblr, MySpace and VK.com were exposed on the Internet. Now, the same hacker who was responsible for selling data dumps for LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr and VK.com is now selling what is said to be the login information of 200 Million Yahoo! users on the Dark Web. 200 Million Yahoo! Logins for 3 BTC The hacker, who goes by the pseudonym "Peace" or "peace_of_mind," has uploaded 200 Million Yahoo! credentials up for sale on an underground marketplace called The Real Deal for 3 Bitcoins (US$1,824). Yahoo! admitted the company was "aware" of the potential leak, but did not confirm the authenticity of the data. The leaked database includes usernames, MD5-hashed passwords and date of births from 200 Million Yahoo! Users. In some cases, there is also the backup email addresses used for the account, country of origin, as well as the ZIP codes for United States users. Easily Crackable Passwords Since the passwords are MD5-encrypted, hackers could easily decrypt them using an MD5 decrypter available online, making Yahoo! users open to hackers. In a brief description, Peace says the Yahoo! database "most likely" comes from 2012, the same year when Marissa Mayer became Yahoo's CEO. source : http://thehackernews.com/2016/08/hack-yahoo-account.html good lord, I only use yahoo email for unimportant stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dbu Posted September 23, 2016 Report Share Posted September 23, 2016 So i do, usually used yahoo for unimportant thing ....but really is sad and danger how this hackers sell account...regards 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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