Hacker is Selling Info on 200 Million Yahoo Accounts

The current week's most stunning hacking news comes civility of Yahoo, which is as far as anyone knows under assault from a programmer with the nom de plume". The programmer has supposedly stolen the individual information of 200 million Yahoo accounts and is currently undermining to offer them.

The spot where he is going for the exchange? Dim Web. The data acquired by the programmer incorporates usernames, passwords, birthdates and, sometimes, reinforcement email account IDs. The same programmer was connected with the breaks you found as of late with Myspace and LinkedIn, among others.

Peace is as of now requesting 3 bitcoins (about $1800) for the data of these records, which he claims is likely from 2012. The arrangement will happen in a commercial center called The Real Deal, which has a scrappy past and various fights with law.

For better or for more terrible, Yahoo knows about the hacking claims and has answered to Vice Motherboard by means of email, prescribing clients to make solid passwords (or utilize a Yahoo Account Key) and utilize an alternate one for every record. It asserts its security group is as of now working on it.

As Motherboard has discover however, a large number of the records are still observed to be dynamic as dictated by entering them in Yahoo's login area and squeezing next. Be that as it may, of course a hefty portion of the records couldn't be reached as they were either "handicapped or stopped".

We anticipate more information from Yahoo's side over this story.

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