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Passwords Leaked from Yahoo: Boozy, Preachy, Angry - and Easy

By Stephen Lawson

shutterstockFor 333 people who used "ninja" as a password for Yahoo Mail or another Web service, Thursday was the day their fleet-footed, black-clad cover was blown.

A group of hackers calling itself "the D33Ds Company" published [1] a list of 453,492 email addresses and passwords in plain text on Thursday, saying they had found them by hacking into a database associated with an unnamed Yahoo service. The passwords weren't all for Yahoo services; they also come from domain names including gmail.com, hotmail.com and aol.com.

A look through the compromised account information says a lot about Web users and security: First of all, a lot of them don't have much of it.

Read more. [2]

Source: Computerworld

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Links:
[1] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229042/Hackers_publish_over_450_000_emails_and_passwords_allegedly_stolen_from_Yahoo?taxonomyId=140
[2] http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229084/Passwords_leaked_from_Yahoo_Boozy_preachy_angry_and_easy?taxonomyId=17