The company has already alerted those affected, and is working with federal law enforcers to find the perpetrators. by Richard Nieva January 30, 2014 2:57 PM PST (Credit: Getty Images) Yahoo has reset the passwords of some Mail users after an attempted attack sought to get access to email accounts. Related posts Yahoo snags startup that built personal-assistant app Donna Time for Marissa Mayer to phone Mark Zuckerberg for a chat? Marissa Mayer's secret mantra: Thank you, Jerry Yang, thank you In a blog post, the company said that the attack appears to have come from a third party database being compromised, and not an infiltration of Yahoo's own servers. The blog post says the perpetrators were likely looking for the names and email addresses in the most recently sent emails of affected users. Yahoo said that the affected users have already been notified, though it's not clear how widespread the attack was. The company said it's working with federal law enforcement to find those responsible for the attempted breach. Because of that investigation, Yahoo said it could not comment beyond what it has publicly said in the blog post. The company apologized for the attempted attack right off the bat. "We regret this has happened and want to assure our users that we take the security of their data very seriously," the blog post said.
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The company has already alerted those affected, and is working with federal law enforcers to find the perpetrators.
January 30, 2014 2:57 PM PST
Yahoo has reset the passwords of some Mail users after an attempted attack sought to get access to email accounts.
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In a blog post, the company said that the attack appears to have come from a third party database being compromised, and not an infiltration of Yahoo's own servers. The blog post says the perpetrators were likely looking for the names and email addresses in the most recently sent emails of affected users.
Yahoo said that the affected users have already been notified, though it's not clear how widespread the attack was. The company said it's working with federal law enforcement to find those responsible for the attempted breach. Because of that investigation, Yahoo said it could not comment beyond what it has publicly said in the blog post.
The company apologized for the attempted attack right off the bat. "We regret this has happened and want to assure our users that we take the security of their data very seriously," the blog post said.
