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If they found a yahoo employee credentials in the linkedin hack (or vice-versa) then they don't need a million accounts, just those credentials. "Hackers who u
by throwawayReply 10y ago
If they found a yahoo employee credentials in the linkedin hack (or vice-versa) then they don't need a million accounts, just those credentials.
"Hackers who used an employee’s password, re-used from the LinkedIn breach, to access Dropbox’s corporate network and steal the user credentials" - from a unnamed source quoted in a techcrunch article.
So maybe they also managed to traverse from linkedin to Yahoo or Yahoo to linkedin through similar password re-use.