SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A
previously unknown hacker
group has posted online the
details of 450,000 user accounts and passwords it claims to
have taken from a Yahoo
server. The Ars Technica technology
news website reported that
the group, which calls itself
D33DS Company, hacked into
an unidentified subdomain of
Yahoo's website where they retrieved unencrypted account
details. A Yahoo spokesperson in
Singapore declined to
comment. The affected accounts appeared
to belong to a voice-over-
Inte rnet-protocol, or VOIP, service called Yahoo Voices,
which runs on Yahoo's instant
messenger. The Voices service
is powered by Jajah, a VOIP
platform that was bought by
Telefonica Europe BV in 2010. The hackers' website where
the original claim was made,
d33ds.co, was not available
later on Thursday. It was
registered in February.
Industry website CNET reported the hackers as saying
the breach was intended as a
"wake-up call and not as a
threat" and that Yahoo's
security was lax. The Voices hack is one of
several in recent months. The
business networking service
LinkedIn admitted last month
that 6.4 million member
passwords had been stolen from its website.
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