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2016-09-27 10:38:08 | Six senators demand more details about the Yahoo data breach (lien direct) | Six U.S. senators have called Yahoo's massive data breach "unacceptable," and they're demanding that the company provide more details about the incident.In a letter addressed to Yahoo's CEO, the lawmakers said they were particularly "disturbed" that the breach occurred in 2014, but that Yahoo only publicized it last week."That means millions of Americans' data may have been compromised for two years," the letter said. "This is unacceptable."The hacking incident, which Yahoo said it only learned recently, affects at least 500 million users, making it perhaps the largest known data breach in history. Account information, including email addresses, telephone numbers, and hashed passwords, may have been stolen.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | Guideline | Yahoo | |
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2016-09-26 18:07:35 | Yahoo\'s claim of \'state-sponsored\' hackers meets with skepticism (lien direct) | Yahoo has blamed its massive data breach on a "state-sponsored actor." But the company isn't saying why it arrived at that conclusion. Nor has it provided any evidence.The lingering questions are causing some security experts to wonder why Yahoo isn't offering more details on a hack that stole account information from 500 million users."I think there's a lot of fishiness going on here," said Michael Lipinski, the chief security strategist at Securonix.Yahoo didn't respond to a request for comment. The company has protocols in place that can detect state-sponsored hacking into user accounts. In a December 2015 blog post, the company outlined its policy, saying it will warn users when this is suspected. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | Yahoo | ||
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2016-09-23 10:26:25 | Here\'s what you should know, and do, about the Yahoo breach (lien direct) | Yahoo's announcement that state-sponsored hackers have stolen the details of at least 500 million accounts shocks both through scale -- it's the largest data breach ever -- and the potential security implications for users.That's because Yahoo, unlike MySpace, LinkedIn and other online services that suffered large breaches in recent years, is an email provider; and email accounts are central to users' online lives. Not only are email addresses used for private communications, but they serve as recovery points and log-in credentials for accounts on many other websites.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | Yahoo | ||
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2016-09-22 19:39:15 | Yahoo uncovered breach after probing a black market sale (lien direct) | A hacker's attempt to sell user data he claimed was stolen from Yahoo actually led the company to uncover a far more severe breach.Yahoo confirmed Thursday a data breach, which affects at least 500 million users, but it could be unrelated to the black market sale of alleged Yahoo accounts, according to a source familiar with the matter.The information comes even as security experts have been questioning why Yahoo took so long to warn the public when it was known that a hacker was claiming to be selling the data online around early August.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | Yahoo | ||
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2016-09-22 17:33:46 | Hackers have a treasure trove of data with the Yahoo breach (lien direct) | The massive breach at Yahoo means that a treasure trove of stolen data is in the hands of hackers -- putting millions of internet users at risk.At least half a billion Yahoo accounts have been affected in one of the biggest data breaches in history. Information including names, email addresses, telephone numbers and hashed passwords may have been stolen.Yahoo has blamed the attack on a "state-sponsored actor," but it's far from clear who hacked the internet company and how the culprits pulled off the attack.Blaming it on a state-sponsored actor, however, indicates that Yahoo may have found evidence that the hackers were targeting the company over a long period of time, said Vitali Kremez, a cybercrime analyst at security firm Flashpoint.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | Yahoo | ||
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2016-09-22 13:36:47 | The massive Yahoo hack ranks as the world\'s biggest -- so far (lien direct) | When Yahoo said on Thursday that data from at least 500 million user accounts had been hacked, it wasn't just admitting to a huge failing in data security -- it was admitting to the biggest hack the world has ever seen.Until Thursday, the previous largest known hack was the 2008 breach that hit almost 360 million MySpace accounts, according to a ranking by the "Have I been pwned" website. Like the Yahoo breach, the hack was only publicly disclosed this year after data was offered on a hacker forum.And only three breaches had ranked above the 100 million level:LinkedIn reported a loss of 167 million email addresses and passwords. They were originally stolen in 2012 but not publicly disclosed until 2016, again after the data was offered on an underground "dark market" site.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | Yahoo | ||
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2016-09-22 12:16:27 | Yahoo data breach affects at least 500 million users (lien direct) | A massive breach at Yahoo compromised account details from at least 500 million users, and the company is blaming the attack on state-sponsored hackers.Names, email addresses, telephone numbers, and hashed passwords may have been stolen as part of the hack, which occurred in late 2014, Yahoo said.The company reported the breach on Thursday, after a stolen database from the company went on sale on the black market last month.However, the hacker behind the sale claimed that the stolen database involved only 200 million users and was likely obtained in 2012.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | Yahoo | ||
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2016-09-22 08:03:00 | Yahoo reportedly to confirm massive data breach (lien direct) | Following reports that Yahoo will confirm a data breach that affects hundreds of millions of accounts, some users reported Thursday on Twitter and elsewhere that they were prompted to change their email password when trying to log in.Yahoo launched an investigation into a possible breach in early August after someone offered to sell a data dump of over 200 million Yahoo accounts on an underground market, including usernames, easy-to-crack password hashes, dates of birth and backup email addresses.The company has since determined that the breach is real and that it's even worse than initially believed, news website Recode reported Thursday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the investigation.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | Yahoo | ||
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2016-09-07 14:48:00 | Election exploits: What you need to know [infographic] (lien direct) | In late August, an FBI alert warning state election officials about an attack on voter registration databases from Illinois and Arizona was leaked and posted in a report on Yahoo News.'According to the FBI's alert, 'an unknown actor' attacked a state election database by using widely available penetrating testing tools, including Acunetix, SQLMap, and DirBuster,' wrote Michael Kan. 'The hackers then found an SQL injection vulnerability -- a common attack point in websites -- and exploited it to steal the data. The FBI has traced the attacks to eight IP addresses, which appear to be hosted from companies based in Bulgaria, the Netherlands, and Russia.'To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | Yahoo | ||
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2016-08-29 10:36:10 | FBI warns that hackers are targeting state election systems (lien direct) | The FBI has reportedly found evidence that foreign hackers breached two state election databases in recent weeks.An FBI alert warning election officials about the breach was leaked, and it was posted in a report by Yahoo News on Monday. Voter registration databases from both Illinois and Arizona were targeted in the hacks, according to the report.In the Illinois case, personal data on 200,000 voters was stolen. In July, an official with the state's board of elections warned on Facebook that the voting system had fallen to a cyberattack, forcing a shutdown.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | Yahoo |
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