It is going to another password-leak week. A Hacker group call itself 'D33Ds Company' has published a number of 453,492 email addresses and passwords that allegedly compromised from Yahoo! voices. Even worse, all the passwords in plain text.
According to the security firm TrustedSec, a hacking group known as D33Ds picked up the passwords from Yahoo Voices, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company’s crowd-sourced publishing platform.
Yahoo Voices, formerly known as Associated Content, invites users to submit articles through the Yahoo Contributor Network.
According to hackers statement, The data has been compromised by exploiting the SQL Injection vulnerability . Besides the email addresses and passwords, the data dump also contains a list of MySQL variables and a list of database, table and column names.
Yahoo Inc. said it is investigating reports of a security breach.
According to the security firm TrustedSec, a hacking group known as D33Ds picked up the passwords from Yahoo Voices, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company’s crowd-sourced publishing platform.
Yahoo Voices, formerly known as Associated Content, invites users to submit articles through the Yahoo Contributor Network.
According to hackers statement, The data has been compromised by exploiting the SQL Injection vulnerability . Besides the email addresses and passwords, the data dump also contains a list of MySQL variables and a list of database, table and column names.
Yahoo Inc. said it is investigating reports of a security breach.