After hacking, Yahoo Mail users advised to reset passwords, heed security tips

New York: Usernames and passwords of some of Yahoo's email customers have been stolen and used to gather personal information about people those Yahoo mail users have recently corresponded with, the company said Thursday. Yahoo didn't say how many accounts have been affected. Yahoo is the second-largest email service worldwide, after Google's Gmail, according to the research firm comScore. There are 273 million Yahoo mail accounts worldwide,

Yahoo resets passwords after email hack

Yahoo has been resetting email accounts that were targeted in a cyber-attack apparently aimed at collecting personal information from recently sent messages, the company has said. 

The cyber-attack was a coordinated effort by hackers who tried to log into many email accounts with stolen usernames and passwords, Yahoo said. However, the company did not mention how many accounts were affected.

Yahoo Mail targeted in hacking attempt

Yahoo says it has identified an attempted hack on customers' email accounts. It said the usernames and passwords for accounts were likely to have been collected from a database owned by a third party that had been compromised. It has reset passwords on all affected accounts and has implemented an extra verification step when users sign in. 

Yahoo says detected hacking attempt on email accounts

The Yahoo logo is shown at the company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, California April 16, 2013. (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said it had detected a "coordinated effort" to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts using malicious computer software. The company said on its official blog that it believed that the attackers were attempting to access the accounts using credentials that had been obtained from a breach of another company's user database.

Target says hackers stole credentials from vendor

Target said Wednesday that the cyber criminals who breached its system used credentials they stole from one of the retailer's vendors. "The ongoing forensic investigation has indicated that the intruder stole a vendor's credentials, which were used to access our system," Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said in a statement.

PayPal and GoDaddy respond to Twitter hacking controversy, sidestep blame

Naoki Hiroshima recently published a distressing account of how he lost his desirable @N Twitter username to a hacker. But part of his story accuses PayPal of giving the last four numbers of Hiroshima's credit card to the perpetrator. "I called PayPal and used some very simple engineering tactics to obtain the last four of your card," the hacker reportedly revealed in an email — after Hiroshima had agreed to give up his Twitter account. "I was acting as an employee,"

SPYING BIRDS: Hackers defaced Angry Birds Website after Surveillance Claims

Yesterday, after the revelation that Angry Birds is being used by the US and British Spy agencies to collect data, their official website was defaced by hackers. Angry Birds is a popular game’s website and Over 12 million copies of the game have been purchased from Apple’s App Store. “The defacement was caught in minutes and corrected immediately,”

NSA uses Apps like ‘Angry Birds, Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter’ to SPY

Angry Birds, Google Maps and other photo sharing apps like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr have been on many occasions suspected to be used to spy individual Smart-phones. Some of the biggest security agencies in the world such as the British and the National Security Agency (NSA) use these apps to collect useful data such as the age of a person, the places where a person visits on a daily basis, the addresses, activities etc.

EXCLUSIVE: NSA latest Hacking Tool ‘Radio Waves’ checks 100,000 computers around the Globe

America’s new intelligent hacking has gone up to such a level that the newest hackers do not need an internet connection to hack a system. As reported by The New York Times last week, reported that there is a system that checks about 100,000 other computers around the globe and has been developed by the National Security Agency of USA.

Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users per hour

Around 2.5 million Yahoo users were infected with the malicious software after the hackers seized a few advertisements of the company and used those to attack the web surfers. As per the report of the cyber security firm Fox IT to the breach, some of the advertisements were viewed by the clients from the period of 30^th December to 2^nd January were malware infected. CNET also explains that the users who opened the pages with the ads were then redirected to those sites,

Godaddy, Paypal is used to steal a $50,000 twitter account

Internet stealing has now shifted to twitter handles, which surprisingly as a lot of value. In 2013 reports given, various twitter users have on more than one occasion received purchase offers for their twitter handles. An example is the $20,000 offer made to a user for the transfer of his handle and name “@Chase” to the Chase Bank. There was also another unique case whereby a user managed to pocket $50,000

Hackers behind TARGET data breach looking for Pro-cracker to decrypt Credit card PINs

I think you haven’t forgotten the massive data breach occurred at TARGET, the third-largest U.S. Retailer during last Christmas Holidays. People shop during Black Friday sales in which over 40 millionCredit & Debit cards were stolen, used to pay for purchases at its 1500 stores nationwide in the U.S. TARGET officially confirmed that the encrypted PINs (personal identification numbers) of payment cards were stolen in the breach, since the stolen pin data

Yahoo Mail Accounts Hacked, Passwords Reset

An unspecified number of Yahoo Mail users have had their usernames and passwords compromised, the company announced late Thursday. The hack appears to have taken place via a compromised third party database, and Yahoo has taken the precaution of resetting the passwords of affected users.