Yahoo Confirms, Apologizes For The Email Hack, Says Still Fixing. Plus, Check If You Were Impacted (Non-Yahoo Accounts Apply)

There are still a lot of questions about this alleged Yahoo Voices data breach -- including whether there was a reason behind the breach in the first place -- but Yahoo has now officially confirmed that the data did in fact come from its servers, and that "approximately" 400,000 email addresses and passwords have been leaked in plain text online. Meanwhile, security specialists are now parsing the data and one, Sucuri, has come up with a script to check if your email address (which doesn't have to be a @yahoo.com address) is among those exposed. In a statement in which it apologizes for the attack, Yahoo tells us that the data came from an older file from the Yahoo! Contributor Network (which it picked up via its Associated Content acquisition). But it also noted that less than five percent of the emails had valid passwords, and that it is now working to fix the vulnerability that led to the disclosure -- note, it didn't say it's fixed yet.

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