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The records of more than one billion Yahoo users, secretly stolen from the site in 2013 but only brought to the world's attention this month...
The records of more than one billion Yahoo users, secretly stolen from the site in 2013 but only brought to the world’s attention this month, have reportedly been sold on the computer underground.
InfoArmor’s Andrew Komarov told the New York Times that his firm has uncovered that the valuable data has been sold to three buyers – “two known spammers and an entity that appeared more interested in espionage”, the paper reports – for about US $300,000 each.
That means, if you are an affected Yahoo user, that personal information (including your backup email addresses, security questions & answers, and – potentially – passwords) are in the hands of criminals.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Yahoo..
The records of more than one billion Yahoo users, secretly stolen from the site in 2013 but only brought to the world's attention this month...
The records of more than one billion Yahoo users, secretly stolen from the site in 2013 but only brought to the world’s attention this month, have reportedly been sold on the computer underground.
InfoArmor’s Andrew Komarov told the New York Times that his firm has uncovered that the valuable data has been sold to three buyers – “two known spammers and an entity that appeared more interested in espionage”, the paper reports – for about US $300,000 each.
That means, if you are an affected Yahoo user, that personal information (including your backup email addresses, security questions & answers, and – potentially – passwords) are in the hands of criminals.
Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=DATA-BREACHES
http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=Yahoo..