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To: Old Sarge

Didn’t Yahoo have a security problem involving passwords?


4 posted on 07/12/2012 7:32:43 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: Grams A
450,000 Yahoo passwords just got hacked; find out if you might be affected
Security firm TrustedSec has found that more than 450,000 passwords have been exposed after a successful hack into Yahoo’s Voices website, the Guardian reports. Voices, formerly known as Associated Content before being purchased by Yahoo in 2010, is a news and analysis site that relies on user-generated content. The big problem with this particular hack, the Guardian says, is that “the passwords for the accounts were not encrypted — meaning that any hacker could scoop up the emails and immediately start using them against other services, including Yahoo Mail...

24 posted on 07/12/2012 8:08:20 PM PDT by Capn Freedom
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