Industry Report: Yahoo Gets Hacked, 500 Million Accounts At Risk
A massive data breach at Yahoo, and IPFS prefers Ethereum over Bitcoin. Want to catch up on your latest digital currency and tech news? Take a gander at the stories below. YAHOO. Believing Yahoo to have been the victim of a massive 2014 hack, executives of the Internet and email giant sent out a notice last Thursday evening warning users of a potential data breach. Thus far, it appears up to 500 million users have been compromised, and the hack is believed to have stemmed from state-sponsored actors. Presently, the company is working with law enforcement agents to figure out just what....
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Yahoo has finally revealed that it was indeed hacked in 2014 after user credentials goes up for sale on the darknet. It’s now official, Yahoo was indeed hacked! The reports of possible security breach have been floating around since last month. The company has now officially announced that the platform suffered The reports of a possible security breach have been floating around the internet for months now. A recent announcement by the company confirms these reports. According to Yahoo, the platform was hacked in late 2014, compromising over 500 million user accounts. The hackers have....
Yahoo has announced it has lost user information for over 500 million accounts. The tech giant posted a notice this week that information on the accounts over over half a billion users has been compromised. This is allegedly the result of a hack, and a significant range of user data may have been stolen. According to Yahoo: “The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.” The notice closes out with a statement....
Steemit announced on their website that they were hacked. The attack, according to them, has compromised about 260 accounts. A little less than US$ 85,000 worth of Steem Dollars and Steem are reported to have been taken by the attackers. In the security announcement CEO of Steemit Ned Scott said: “User accounts and wallets are not at risk, and we hope to soon reactivate the Steemit website to normal order. Any users whose accounts were compromised will be completely reimbursed.” Law enforcement informed. At the moment it appears that the virtual currency itself has not been compromised but....
For four days last week Yahoo's European servers were the equivalent of a cyber Typhoid Mary, spreading disease to anyone who came near. Yahoo was the victim of a major security breach, which caused its servers to send out millions of malware-laden ads to an estimated two million European users. Suspicions were first raised by Dutch security outfit Fox IT, which estimated that Yahoo's servers were responsible for 27,000 malware infections every hour the malware was live on Yahoo's website. Yahoo confirmed the embarrassing attack in a statement: "From December 31 to January 3 on our....
This article has been updated with Yahoo's comment. Access to bitcoin price data in the world of mainstream finance has taken another big step in the last 24 hours. Following Bloomberg's recent addition of bitcoin to its trading terminals in late April, and its inclusion on computational knowledge engine WolframAlpha, Yahoo! Finance has followed suit and now displays the BTC/USD price along with its many other listed fiat currencies. A Yahoo spokesperson told CoinDesk that move was driven by the site's users, many of whom had requested the addition of the feature: "We've added bitcoin to....