Yahoo: hacker attack on the corporate network
According to the information of the Internet company Yahoo, obviously, information of about half a billion customers were stolen illegally. The hackers have spent as a state and be so fallen into the corporate network. What state or by a public authority in question was not communicated.
- The company had confirmed that it should already be in the year 2014 happens.
- The hackers have valuable information, such as name, E-Mail addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passport stolen words. Were used questions to Reset the password had been stolen.
- However, neither plaintext passwords, Bank data, or credit card are supposed to be data has been stolen.
- Already at the beginning of August has been a Hacker on the Darknet data of around 200 million Yahoo customers, so the Online magazine Motherboard.
You are a customer of Yahoo? The you should do now
Since no one knows exactly what data and from which customers stolen were, it is absolutely essential for everyone at Yahoo an Account to take the following steps.
- The company itself indicates that one should change his / her password, at least if no one has done this since 2014. We strongly recommend, as quickly as possible your Yahoo password to change, so that no damage can be.
- In order to better in the future are protected, and your password itself in case of theft is not so easy to be cracked can, we recommend these tips for a secure password.
- There is also information about how the security were stolen questions, you should change these also. Better even, you will have to disable the security questions. These questions are usually so simple that even your neighbor could answer the questions.
Yahoo Hack: change password
Better safe than sorry: two-step verification
If you want to be on the Safe side, you can use Yahoo, the Two-way authentication. This method works like this: When you want to login with a new device in your Yahoo Account, first enter your password and also receive a Code on your mobile phone, you additionally need to enter. So your Account is protected even better.
- Log into your Yahoo Account to a.
- Then, go to the mouse over your name in the top right corner and then click on "Account information". Alternatively, you can use the Account settings by Clicking on the Link to call.
- To place the switch in "confirmation in two steps". Then, you need to specify your mobile phone number to receive for the first Time, a security Code.
- Your Two-way authentication is now enabled.
