Hundreds of millions of Yahoo! accounts have been stolen – The Figaro

This hacking dates back to 2012. The file would contain addresses, passwords, decipherable, and other personal information.

Several of the “hundreds of millions” of accounts, Yahoo! would be in the hands of hackers. According to the website Recode, the american company is about to confirm that she was the victim in 2012 of a piracy “massive”. It would cover more than 200 million accounts. A file, sold 1800 dollars on the black market, which would contain user id, passwords easily readable and personal information such as addresses, alternate email and date of birth. The website Motherboard was the first to talk about the piracy in August, but Yahoo! had not pronounced on its authenticity.

This type of hacking, even if it dates from 2012, can let fear of significant repercussions. Yahoo! remains one of the most visited sites in the world, thanks to its e-mail service. Yahoo! does not require change of password on a regular basis, a good part of the information contained in this file should still be valid and allow you to enter the accounts. Hackers can also try to break into the accounts of Facebook, Gmail or Outlook of the people who use the same password on all the sites.

These intrusions allow to conduct campaigns of “phishing,” in usurping the identity of the victim, to steal payment data or other confidential information. For this reason, it is recommended not to use the same password on all the sites and to prefer combinations of longer, more difficult to identify.

in The last, several hacks massive have been confirmed. 2012 is a bad year for computer security and theft of data. Some 117 million LinkedIn accounts, 68 million passwords to Dropbox and 43 million ids Last.fm have been stolen this year. In 2013, 417 million accounts, MySpace has been compromised. Generally, the files are operated a first time by the pirates before being released for sale.

These revelations come at a time when Yahoo! is engaged in a process of resale to the telephone operator american Verizon, for $ 4.8 billion. “Shareholders have reason to fear that this would lead to a revision of the price of the transaction,” writes Recode. The two groups agreed in July this buyout, which still needs to be validated by the regulation authorities.