Le internet group Yahoo! faced Friday in a significant pressure to explain how more than 500 million user accounts were able to be hacked by the end of 2014 by an organization, ” he says, probably related to a State.
The american giant, full resale of its Yahoo mail and Yahoo News to the operator, the telecom american Verizon, confirmed Thursday to have been a victim of data theft of half a billion accounts.
This is not the first time that Yahoo! is the victim of?illegal infiltration into its database: in 2012, the pirates had managed to steal the passwords and user names of 453.000 accounts.
But this intrusion could be one of the largest in history, according to the security company Symantec.
It is this attack as one of the “mega breaches”, in the wake of a series already seen in 2014.
hackers have stolen personal information, names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, or passwords, listed the group but not bank data.
the portal to The american who claimed a billion accounts in 2012, claims to work closely with the authorities.
The group, which does not accuse anyone by name, threw the responsibility on “an entity probably related to a State”.
In ten years, cyber-attacks against companies and entities in the united states have nearly quadrupled, according to the firm Identity Theft Resource Center.
- China is pointing the finger -
every great operation of piracy, it is China that is the pointing of the finger.
“If I have to announce the bad news that my company has been hacked and that at least 500 million accounts are affected, I would feel more relieved to say that the hackers are +sponsored by a State+ as to say that it is a band of 15 year-olds a place of ill repute in the city,” says a computer security expert Graham Cluley.
In this case, ” says the specialist Timothy Carone, this cyber attack seems to correspond to large operations that are suspected of being launched by spy agencies chinese, Russian or north Korean.
beyond Yahoo!, the hacks have multiplied in recent months in the United States, most of them aimed at the computer systems, the internet of large groups such as retailers Home Depot and Target, the first american bank JPMorgan Chase, the health insurer Anthem, or the editor of Adobe software.
The hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures Entertainment in December 2014, had moved the spotlight on North Korea, suspected of leading an army of thousands of hackers. Pyongyang had denied all liability.
The Russians are not left out: in August 2014, the firm computer security, Hold Security announced that?a group of hackeurs Russian s?had taken over 1.2 billion passwords from american corporations, allowing d?have access to 500 million e-mail accounts and connect to 420.000 websites.
The information stolen from users of Yahoo! could be used elsewhere on the web, ” said Graham Cluley.
In August, a “hacker” named “Peace” has appeared on various forums on the internet, offering 200 million user names and passwords Yahoo! for $ 1,900 in total. “Peace” is known to have followed the same procedure with the data of the users of Myspace and LinkedIn.
- full resale with Verizon -
If he says it has taken the necessary steps to secure the accounts hacked, Yahoo! recommends users to change their password and change the security questions and answers.
Yahoo! advocates don’t click on links or download attachments from e-mail addresses as “suspect” and to be vigilant on any request with a request for personal information.
The proliferation of cyber attacks have led the technological sector to launch in December 2015, a program designed to help prevent the users as soon as they have the belief that an attack was carried out by an entity sponsored by a State. Apart from the ongoing investigation, with some 10,000 users Yahoo! have already been notified in the framework of this program.
These revelations occur at a critical time for Yahoo! in full transfer of its activities, Yahoo News and Yahoo Mail, and its billion users, the telecom giant american Verizon.
The sales recorded in July for the two groups to $ 4.8 billion still needs to be validated by the regulatory authorities. But this intrusion could impact the price of the transaction.
Verizon got wind of this intrusion this week claims to have for the time being, a “restricted view of its consequences.”
“We will evaluate (the consequences) as of developments in the investigation while highlighting the interest of Verizon,” responded the operator.
Graham Cluley, “frankly, the timing couldn’t be worse for Yahoo!”.
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