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.

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.