Last month More than 6.4 million LinkedIn passwords had leaked to the Web after an apparent hack. This time its yahoo whose 453,000 yahoo password have leaked. According to Ars Technica Hackers strike yahoo this time after linkdin. If the sources at security firm Trusted Sec are to be believed, the compromised server was part of “Yahoo!! Voice” which was earlier known as Associated Content.However, this speculation is based on the fact that string in the dump -”dbb1.ac.bf1.yahoo.com” - which belongs to a subdomain associated with Yahoo!’s voice service.
Security firm mentions that they were alarmed at this situation when 400,000+ passwords which were stored completely unencrypted are now available publicly.
last month when more than 6.4 million accounts and passwords of social networking sites LinkedIn were compromised and violated ,the LinkedIn director Vicente Silveira stated in a blog post, “We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused our members. We take the security of our members very seriously.”
