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Yahoo to confirm a historic hack affecting 200M users
- tlb 10y agoURL changed from http://uk.businessinsider.com/yahoo-to-confirm-2012-hack-200-million-users-report-peace-2016-9 http://uk.businessinsider.com/yahoo-to-confirm-2012-hack-200..., which linked to this
- NelsonMinar 10y agoThe article says the data includes "easily decrypted passwords". How is that even possible for a company with the engineering staff and history of Yahoo? Deliberate negligence?
- NelsonMinar 10y agoUpdating: the official Yahoo press release says "hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt)", so perhaps the Recode article was not entirely correct.
- spullara 10y agoI thought the speculation at the time that this was Tumblr rather than the main Yahoo accounts. I guess we will see.
- sctb 10y agoComments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559006 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559006.