Yahoo! Mail, the email service company in Sunnyvale, is under attack from hackers. The company admits the same through communication on Tumblr but not specifying how many accounts have been compromised. The users were asked to change their passwords. Yahoo! points out that the credentials could not have been stolen directly from its servers, but from a third database. Internet users often use the same keywords to access different services, so hackers attempt to use stolen passwords on a platform to violate other accounts.
previous In December last Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer already had to apologize for a ‘blackout’ for a few days of the mail service, inter alia, owing to a similar problem that had affected Flickr, a platform for sharing photos. “We have no evidence – said the company – which passwords have been obtained directly from our systems.” In November the same Mayer Yahoo! Mail announced that it would adopt the most advanced security protocols and a system to encrypt your information in transit on its data center. 280 million users Novelty conceived not only as anti-Datagate, but first and foremost to get away from hacker intrusions. Yahoo! Mail is one of the most popular email service in the world with Gmail and Hotmail. According to comScore data refer to the end of 2012 has about 280 million users.
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