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Yahoo

Yahoo

mediumHave I Been Pwned
Disclosed

July 11, 2012

5007 days ago

Records

453.4K

Confirmed

Root Cause

SQL Injection

Industry

Technology

Description

In July 2012, Yahoo! had their online publishing service "Voices" compromised via a SQL injection attack. The breach resulted in the disclosure of nearly half a million usernames and passwords stored in plain text. The breach showed that of the compromised accounts, a staggering 59% of people who also had accounts in the Sony breach reused their passwords across both services.

Exposed Data Types

Exposed Data

PasswordsEmail Addresses
Yahoo Data Breach (2012) - 453K Records | ExposedMap