Re: Yahoo breach

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

Worth of checking:

http://m.cnet.com/news/yahoo-breach-swiped-passwords-by-the-numbers/57470878

(removed infosecbc@ as a recipient)

Juha-Matti

Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" [rmslade () shaw ca] kirjoitti: 
> Still very little info on the Yahoo breach (although lots of reports that it was an 
> unencrypted password file).
>
> In regard to the reports that this only affected a company Yahoo purchased, and 
> subsequently named Yahoo Voice:
>
> I've obtained a copy of the password file.  I've had at least three Yahoo accounts, 
> two of them for over ten years.  None of them are in the file.  So, whatever it is, 
> it isn't a general file of Yahoo accounts.
>
> ======================  (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer)
> rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
> My son is not brilliant; he's not genius. Anyone that has any
> computer knowledge could have done what Jeff did. It doesn't take
> a level of genius to do this.
>   - mother of teen charged with modifying a virus - got *that* right
> victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links
> http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/
> http://twitter.com/rslade
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