http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245908/Yahoo_resets_passwords_after_email_hack
By Jeremy Kirk
IDG News Service
January 30, 2014
Yahoo has been resetting email accounts that were targeted in an attack
apparently aimed at collecting personal information from recently sent
messages, the company said Thursday.
The list of usernames and passwords used for the attack was likely
collected when another company's database was breached, Jay Rossiter, a
Yahoo senior vice president, said in a blog post. He didn't name the third
party or say how many accounts were affected.
"We are working with federal law enforcement to find and prosecute the
perpetrators responsible for this attack," Rossiter wrote.
The hackers used a malicious software program to access Mail accounts with
the stolen usernames and passwords, he wrote.
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