Yahoo says it’s investigating reports of a security breach this morning that may have exposed nearly half a million users’ email addresses and passwords. The company says it has been looking into “claims of a compromise of Yahoo! user IDs” but did not disclose the size of the reported breach or how it may have happened. Yahoo spokeswoman Caroline MacLeod-Smith says that she couldn’t immediately provide more detail on the breach “as we are still investigating it.” Technology news websites are citing hackers—who call themselves the D33D Company—as those claiming responsibility for the attack, adding that data posted to the group’s website carried more than 453,000 login credentials from an unidentified Yahoo subdomain. The little-known group has been quoted as saying that it had stolen the passwords using an SQL injection—the name given to a common attack method in which hackers use rogue commands to extract data from vulnerable websites.
Today’s poll question: Which domain do you use most for your personal emails?
