[softwarelist] Re: accounts getting hacked...
- From: "Bruce Goatly" <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:21:02 +0100
David Pilling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message <0J9oUjDrUeAQFwdt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pilling
> <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>> In the cases I'm talking about, the people were able to see that their
>> yahoo accounts had actually been accessed - so not computer virus's
>
> Richard I'd better take that back, because presumably if your PC is
> compromised (think worst case, a key logger) you'd give away your yahoo
> password. They didn't believe they had computer virus's.
The following quote was on the Usenet group news.admin.net-abuse.email, which I
found illuminating.
Bruce
----------------------------
> My wifes email address and password was in that file (can get the full
> list from thepiratebay) but she denied ever having to do anything with
> yahoo.
>
> Just for yucks I searched for about 50 names at random and none of them
> were part of yahoo voices.
>
> That list is from another company, Associated Content, which was purchased
> by Yahoo in 2010. The file was the email/password list from the sale. I
> don't think they were ever integrated to any yahoo service.
>
> Worse case is with people using the same password for multiple sites, you
> kind of know now.
>
> I'm not defending yahoo, was pretty stupid to use a non-encrypted password
> field in the database server and leave it online somewhere, but it does
> seem to be pretty stale data.
>
> And yes, the most common passwords once again were 123456 and password.
>
> Sometimes people deserver what they get.
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