Data breach
Yahooyahoo.com
453 427 accounts exposed in a breach dated 2012-07-11.
Breached2012-07-11Added to HIBP2013-12-04 UTCUpdated by HIBP2013-12-04 UTCAccounts453 427Domainyahoo.com
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What happened in Have I Been Pwned’s words
In July 2012, Yahoo! had their online publishing service "Voices" compromised via a SQL injection attack. The breach resulted in the disclosure of nearly half a million usernames and passwords stored in plain text. The breach showed that of the compromised accounts, a staggering 59% of people who also had accounts in the Sony breach reused their passwords across both services.
Exposed data as HIBP classifies it
- Email addresses
- Passwords
How HIBP qualifies it
- HIBP verified that the data came from this service.