Yahoo server hacked. Is your name on list? Check here
This is one of the most useful articles to check your email account security. MUST read it and check if your email id password is visible on internet by everyone. Many Gmail, Hotmail accounts have also been compromised.
Recently, one of the hackers group has claimed that they have hacked tons of Yahoo user details like their username and password. The information came first on Twitter. To prove that, they even uploaded the complete file. It's about 4,50,000 users account has been compromised. Yahoo has confirmed it and they are investigating the issue. But information is already leaked. This incident shows that Yahoo did not store its users sensitive information in secure way. Secondly, the list shows that many users still uses common passwords like 123456 or password.
The list of emails stretches just beyond just the Yahoo.com domain and includes login information for more than 106,000 Gmail accounts and 55,000 Hotmail accounts, among others. If your email id is on the list, you should immediately change it. Many people uses same passwords on different locations. If you're one of them, you need to change on all those websites also.
Best Regards
Prakash Nair
Note: I am not sure whether this news item is true or not. I am just forwarding this for the information of our group members. It's better to change your e-mail password at least once in a month also use differencet passwords for each email ids.
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