WASHINGTON: The huge Yahoo hack deals a fresh blow to the internet pioneer which has been struggling to reinvent itself, potentially impacting the pending sale aiming at giving it a new start.

Hacker Made Target Yahoo Accounts Because of:

  1. Yahoo had been targeted also in 2014
  2. Yahoo little bit less secure than google
  3. Many of hckers easily find out  Loopholes in yahoo ,(its better to make account in G-mail)
  4. Cyber criminal always find some backdoars or loopholes to get into your account.

Yahoo Statement :

“It’s a massive black eye for Yahoo and its brand,” said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst and consultant at Moor Insights & Strategy.

User who are not changed his password since 2014 can be targeted ,

Suggestion : Always change passwords in 1-2 months.

How to avoid your acount to be hacked :

  • Yahoo has warned that users should review their online accounts for suspicious activity and change their password and security questions and answers for any other accounts.
  • To protect from phishing attacks, Yahoo recommends you avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious emails and ignore unsolicited communications that ask for personal information.
  • Yahoo has also suggested that users adopt Yahoo Account Key, a tool that eliminates passwords altogether. Instead, a code is sent to your mobile phone every time you enter your username.

Cause of Hack :

  • people open phising links which cyber hacker send him,
  • passwords are to small or something like “password”asdfghj”mobile number etc.
  •  make Log out to your account even in your computer.

Who is responsible for the hack?

There has been some confusion about the identity of the hacker. Earlier this summer, a hacker going by the name “Peace” alleged he was selling 280m Yahoo user credentials on the “dark web” for the equivalent of $1,800. Yahoo was made aware of this and said it would investigate, but did not disclose if this data dump was real.

Now, sources close to Yahoo say an internal investigation ultimately found no evidence to substantiate Peace’s claims, which is why no announcement was forthcoming.

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