Personal Data Leak Monitor

Yahoo data breach

453K accounts from Yahoo (yahoo.com) were exposed in this breach. Besides email addresses, it included passwords, which makes it a high-risk breach.

Breach date
July 11, 2012
Accounts
453,427
Added to the database
December 4, 2013

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What leaked

Email addressesPasswords

What to do now

  1. Please change that password, and anywhere you reused it
  2. Do not tap links in emails claiming to be that service

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About this breach

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.

Source: Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0)

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