Yahoo confirms 450,000 email addresses and passwords stolen

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This article was just posted in the Washington Post. If you have Yahoo accounts, or gmail, etc., others who share with Yahoo, it'd be a good idea to get your passwords changed. I have posted the first part of the article, with a link to the rest. I am posting this to all the yahoo knitting groups I belong to, but please pass it along to your other friends.

Yahoo confirms theft of 450,000 users' email addresses and passwords

By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, July 12, 2:56 PM

LONDON - Some 450,000 Yahoo users' email addresses and passwords have been leaked because of a security breach, the company confirmed Thursday, adding that just a small fraction of the stolen passwords were valid.

The company said in a statement that an " old file " from the Yahoo Contributor Network was compromised Wednesday. Among the stolen emails and passwords were many from Yahoo's own email service along with those of other companies. The Yahoo Contributor Network is a content-sharing platform.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/yahoo-says-its-investigating-a-reports-of-a-breach-involving-450000-passwords/2012/07/12/gJQADtx8eW_story.html?wpisrc=nl_tech

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