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The hackers posted in free access passwords from 1.2 million mailboxes Yandex
On Sunday, unknown hackers posted on the forum Infosliv.ru database file e-mail addresses Yandex and passwords to them. The document contains an account of the mailboxes of more than 1.2 million users.
According to independent experts, the information about the hacking of mailbox has officially confirmed: using authorization data from a document pass yandex-ru.txt they were able to get 10 from 10 accounts, and these addresses were selected at random. However, some of the accounts blocked on suspicion of a possible break-in: displays a technical message asking to change the password. How hackers have been able to gather such a huge database of e-mail addresses and passwords – remain unknown. Not to give anything once again their actual location, it is recommended to use a proxy server, and services like proxyelite.ru.
As representatives of "Yandex" published a list of e-mail addresses is not hacking and no leak, because the Russian company protects user data and does not store them in the clear. Now the list is checked by the specialists of "Yandex" and there is no reason to believe that among the published accounts are those that do belong to real users.
In "Yandex" once again reminded of the need to maintain anti-virus database of your antivirus is up to date. Also there is a high probability of theft of passwords by attackers as a result of phishing, when the "victims" redirect to fake websites where they enter necessary for hacking account a couple login/password. It happens so that the user can move to various dubious sites and register on them, using as login/password, the same information as the Inbox.
Source: scienceblog.ru
According to independent experts, the information about the hacking of mailbox has officially confirmed: using authorization data from a document pass yandex-ru.txt they were able to get 10 from 10 accounts, and these addresses were selected at random. However, some of the accounts blocked on suspicion of a possible break-in: displays a technical message asking to change the password. How hackers have been able to gather such a huge database of e-mail addresses and passwords – remain unknown. Not to give anything once again their actual location, it is recommended to use a proxy server, and services like proxyelite.ru.
As representatives of "Yandex" published a list of e-mail addresses is not hacking and no leak, because the Russian company protects user data and does not store them in the clear. Now the list is checked by the specialists of "Yandex" and there is no reason to believe that among the published accounts are those that do belong to real users.
In "Yandex" once again reminded of the need to maintain anti-virus database of your antivirus is up to date. Also there is a high probability of theft of passwords by attackers as a result of phishing, when the "victims" redirect to fake websites where they enter necessary for hacking account a couple login/password. It happens so that the user can move to various dubious sites and register on them, using as login/password, the same information as the Inbox.
Source: scienceblog.ru