Yahoo! finally issued an official statement after a group of hackers calling itself D33Ds Co. published about 450 thousand Voices Yahoo account and password.
"We apologize to users affected by this event. We encourage users to change passwords on a regular basis as well as familiarize themselves with the tip of our security," said Yahoo! spokeswoman said in a statement, as quoted from the tech site CNET, Friday, July 13 of 2012.
Yahoo! also recognizes that the 450 thousand who cracked the password from the old archives Yahoo! Contributor Network, formerly known as Associated Content.
"From that figure, Yahoo! account with a valid password percentage is less than five percent."
Yahoo said that it immediately took steps to patch the flaws that led to the breakdown of this data, change the passwords of affected users, as well as the company warned users that their accounts may experience interference.
Yahoo! this statement does not explain the data e-mail accounts are also other published, such as Gmail (106.873), Hotmail (55.148), or even AOL (25.521). Presumably when the Associated Content allows users to log-in using your Yahoo! account outside.
Found more than 2,000 accounts using a combination of numbers one through nine in order, such as '123456 ', and thousands of others use a combination of very weak, like' password ',' welcome 'abc123', 'qwerty', and '111111 '.
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