Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Yahoo! Voices, formerly Associated Content, was hacked sometime in July 2012. The hack is exposed to have leaked approximately half a million email addresses and passwords associated with Yahoo! Contributor Network. The suspected hacker group, D33ds, used a method of SQL Injection to penetrate Yahoo! Voice servers. Security experts said that the passwords were not encrypted and the website did not use a HTTPS Protocol, which was one of the major reasons of the data breach. Dana Lengkeek, a Yahoo! spokeswoman, was asked about the companies whose credentials were stolen, but Mrs Lengkeek did not respond. The email addresses and passwords are still available to download in a plaintext file in the hacker's website. The hacker group described the hack as a "wake-up call" for Yahoo! security experts. Joseph Bonneau, a security researcher and a former product analysis manager at Yahoo, said "Yahoo can fairly be criticized in this case for not integrating the Associated Content accounts more quickly into the general Yahoo login system, for which I can tell you that password protection is much stronger". }
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- 2012_Yahoo!_Voices_hack abstract "Yahoo! Voices, formerly Associated Content, was hacked sometime in July 2012. The hack is exposed to have leaked approximately half a million email addresses and passwords associated with Yahoo! Contributor Network. The suspected hacker group, D33ds, used a method of SQL Injection to penetrate Yahoo! Voice servers. Security experts said that the passwords were not encrypted and the website did not use a HTTPS Protocol, which was one of the major reasons of the data breach. Dana Lengkeek, a Yahoo! spokeswoman, was asked about the companies whose credentials were stolen, but Mrs Lengkeek did not respond. The email addresses and passwords are still available to download in a plaintext file in the hacker's website. The hacker group described the hack as a "wake-up call" for Yahoo! security experts. Joseph Bonneau, a security researcher and a former product analysis manager at Yahoo, said "Yahoo can fairly be criticized in this case for not integrating the Associated Content accounts more quickly into the general Yahoo login system, for which I can tell you that password protection is much stronger"".