Be afraid: login details for 200 million Yahoo accounts offered for sale on the dark webIf you’ve got a Yahoo, Inc. account you may want to reset your password with news that a hacker is currently offering login data for 200 million Yahoo accounts on the dark web.
The hacker selling the logins goes by the name of Peace_of_Mind (Peace) and is the same hacker behind the release of verified data dumps from both MySpace and LinkedIn.
According to Motherboard the Yahoo account details are being offered for sale on dark web marketplace The Real Deal for a price of 3 bitcoin, which at the time of writing is worth $1,650; Peace told the site that he has been privately trading the data for some time but only now decided to sell it openly.
Yahoo has neither confirmed or denied the allegation, saying only in a standard response that they are “aware of the claim” and that they were “committed to protecting the security of our users’ information and [they] take any such claim very seriously.”
“Our security team is working to determine the facts. Yahoo works hard to keep our users safe, and we always encourage our users to create strong passwords, or give up passwords altogether by using Yahoo Account Key, and use different passwords for different platforms.”
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