Yahoo reports attempted hack on email accountsJanuary 31, 2014 - 15:56 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Yahoo said it has identified an attempted hack on customers' email accounts, according to BBC News. The company said the usernames and passwords for accounts were likely to have been collected from a database owned by a third party that had been compromised. It has reset passwords on all affected accounts and has implemented an extra verification step when users sign in. The company said it was working with law enforcement to find out who was responsible for the attack. It has not revealed how many Yahoo email accounts have been affected. "Our ongoing investigation shows that malicious computer software used the list of usernames and passwords to access Yahoo Mail accounts," said a statement on Yahoo's Tumblr page written by Jay Rossiter, a senior vice-president at the company. "The information sought in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts' most recent sent emails." No date was given for the attempted hack but the company said there was no evidence that the usernames and passwords had been obtained directly from Yahoo's systems. It went on to say that it had implemented "additional measures to block attacks against Yahoo's systems". Customers were advised to change their passwords when prompted and reminded to pick new passwords on a regular basis. The statement warned that customers should never use the same password to log in to many different sites. "Using the same password on multiple sites or services makes users particularly vulnerable to these types of attacks," it said. This is not the first incident to affect Yahoo since its mail service was redesigned in October last year, the BBC says. At the time thousands of users complained about the removal of key functions and others reported technical problems. These included the removal of tabs, meaning users could not organize their inboxes. Others complained about the placing of the delete button next to the sender name and no longer having new emails in bold. Some reported that emails were disappearing from their folder after sending. In December some users were not able to access their accounts because of a hardware problem at one of its data centers that lasted several days. Yahoo shares fell more than 5% after it announced a drop in revenue for the fourth straight quarter in its latest set of results. Related links: Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. Byblos Bank Armenia celebrates Students' Day with scholarship recipients YSU students who received scholarships from Byblos Bank Armenia gathered in a casual setting to meet with the Bank's CEO, Hayk Stepanyan. Azerbaijan extends Rune Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |