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Hackers Trawl User Data in Hopes a Small Target Will Lead to a Big On
by bdahm Mon Sep 26, 2016 10:28 am
SAN FRANCISCO — In disclosing that at least 500 million of its user accounts had been hacked, Yahoo blamed an unnamed “state-sponsored actor” for the intrusion. While Yahoo customers were caught by surprise, officials in Washington were not.
For more than a year, they had been getting warnings from threat researchers that hackers were targeting their personal Yahoo email. Even the accounts of their friends and family were in the cross hairs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/technology/hackers-trawl-user-data-in-hopes-a-small-target-will-lead-to-a-big-one.html?_r=0
-Bill
For more than a year, they had been getting warnings from threat researchers that hackers were targeting their personal Yahoo email. Even the accounts of their friends and family were in the cross hairs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/technology/hackers-trawl-user-data-in-hopes-a-small-target-will-lead-to-a-big-one.html?_r=0
-Bill
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