A hacker allegedly sells 200 million user Yahoo data to Dark Web and Yahoo knows it.
The 'Peace' hacker is known for his leaks of high-profile sites such as MySpace and LinkedIn. So this time there are 200 million Yahoo accounts available for sale on the Dark Web's The Real Deal marketplace.
In an email to Motherboard, Yahoo stated that "we are aware of the situation…"
The following is the canned text used by all pages that have been hacked from time to time by hackers:
“We are committed to protecting the security of our users' information and take any such claim very seriously. Our security team is working to fix them issues που υπάρχουν. Η Yahoο εργάζεται σκληρά για να κρατήσει τους χρήστες της ασφαλείς, και ενθαρρύνουμε πάντα τους χρήστες μας για να δημιουργούν ισχυρούς codeς πρόσβασης, ή να χρησιμοποιούν το Yahoο Account Key, και να χρησιμοποιούν διαφορετικούς κωδικούς πρόσβασης για διαφορετικές πλατφόρμες.”
The Motherboard claims that the data includes birthdays, usernames, passwords, and in some cases the back-up of account emails.
Hacker 'Peace' claims that the data is from "2012 probably," and is asking for 3 Bitcoins (about $1.800) to hand over his database.
The Motherboard tasted dozens of Yahoo user names and found that most of them are active, although email addresses are inactive.
However if you continue to useste company as your e-mail service, it would be a good idea to change your password immediately.