Yahoo is the second largest email service globally, after Google’s Gmail
Yahoo informed on Thursday that usernames and passwords of certain Yahoo email customers were stolen and utilised to collect personal information of people, who the affected Yahoo mail users have off late corresponded with. The company did not state the number of accounts that were compromised.
Yahoo is the second-largest email service globally, after Google’s Gmail, as per the research firm comScore. There are about 273 million Yahoo mail accounts world over, which includes 81 million in the United States. It’s the recent in a series of security breaches allowing hackers to get personal information with the use of software which analysts state is quite sophisticated. Around 70 million customers of Target stores got their personal information and credit and debit card numbers compromised late last year.
According to Avivah Litan, a security analyst at the technology research firm Gartner, “It’s an old trend, but it’s much more exaggerated now because the programs the bad guys use are much more sophisticated now.” Yahoo Inc has stated in a blog post on its breach that “The information sought in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts’ most recent sent emails.”
The access to email accounts can end in serious breaches that involve banking and shopping sites. As numerous people re-use passwords across many sites, and also as most sites utilise email to reset passwords, hackers can try logging in to such a site with the Yahoo email address and ask that a password reminder be sent by email.
Yahoo informed on Thursday that usernames and passwords of certain Yahoo email customers were stolen and utilised to collect personal information of people, who the affected Yahoo mail users have off late corresponded with. The company did not state the number of accounts that were compromised.According to Avivah Litan, a security analyst at the technology research firm Gartner, “It’s an old trend, but it’s much more exaggerated now because the programs the bad guys use are much more sophisticated now.” Yahoo Inc has stated in a blog post on its breach that “The information sought in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts’ most recent sent emails.”
The access to email accounts can end in serious breaches that involve banking and shopping sites. As numerous people re-use passwords across many sites, and also as most sites utilise email to reset passwords, hackers can try logging in to such a site with the Yahoo email address and ask that a password reminder be sent by email.
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