Ask HN: has yahoo mail been hacked?

Posted by djt on Thursday February 07, 2013 @03:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have noticed that a few of my friends accounts have been hacked this week. An old account of mine was also hacked, it's very unlikely to the the XSS exploit as I hadn't logged in to it for 12-24 months.

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Re:Ask HN: has yahoo mail been hacked? by randomaccount5 on Thursday February 07, 2013 @06:20PM (#5185184)

Likely, I have a fair amount of contact with random internet people (running game servers), seeing quite a few spam emails from y7mail.com; notably from people I have previously had direct contact with (so I am in the accounts address book).

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Re:Ask HN: has yahoo mail been hacked? by hitsurume on Thursday February 07, 2013 @06:26PM (#5185213)

Same for me. Been getting spam from several people's yahoo email. This is why I always think in the back of my mind that Gmail has it right since Yahoo and Hotmail i've known people getting hacked accounts.

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Re:Ask HN: has yahoo mail been hacked? by djt on Thursday February 07, 2013 @03:23PM (#5184288)

The initial log in was from an IP in India and via a Mobile App.

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