Hacking collective D33Ds Company has posted login details for more than 453,000 user accounts that it claim to have retrieved in plaintext from an unconfirmed service on Yahoo .
Ars Technica is reportingthat the hack used a union - based SQL shot to penetrate a Yahoo subdomain — a technique which , allot to Ars , “ quarry on poorly fasten web applications that do n’t properly scrutinize schoolbook entered into search boxes and other exploiter input field ” . That process can be used to trick servers into releasing great quantities of sensitive selective information .
The user credentials have been brand in populace , throw inside information for 453,492 Yahoo account into the wild . If you want to see it for yourself , it ’s not hard to find . In a note which come with the datum dumpsite , D33Ds Company explained :
“ We hope that the parties responsible for wangle the security of this subdomain will take this as a waken - up call , and not as a threat . There have been many security holes exploited in webservers belong to Yahoo ! Inc. that have have far great damage than our revealing . Please do not take them lightly . The subdomain and vulnerable parameters have not been send to avert further damage . ”
Since , theTrustedSec web log has reportedthat the data comes from Yahoo Voice , also bonk as Associated Content , distinguish from the the string “ dbb1.ac.bf1.yahoo.com ” contained in the data . presently that ’s unconfirmed by Yahoo , though , so it may pay to change any Yahoo password you ’re in will power of . [ Ars Technica ]
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