Either a glitch in the leak, special accounts with some other kind of primary authentication, or old accounts from the time when password complexity requirements were not yet in place. Those are my guesses.
Brian Ochan <[email protected]> wrote: Here is some interesting analysis of the leaked passwords. 117 people had passwords that were only one character long. How is that even possible? - vai Grubber. On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:46 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Check if your account was among those affected. http://labs.sucuri.net/?yahooleak On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 4:24 PM, sanga collins <[email protected]> wrote: mine was a victim. Had to close my account over the weekend On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: Why aren't I surprised. Considering the many spammy messages i see on forums like the i-network from hacked yahoo accounts, though sometimes its the users problems, they use public PCs like Internet cafe computers and they ask the browsers to remember their credentials. http://www.zdnet.com/400k-login-data-reportedly-leaked-in-yahoo-attack-7000000772/ _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. -- Sanga M. Collins Network Engineering ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Google Voice: (954) 324-1365 E- fax: (435) 578 7411 _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ | Twitter: @brian_chano
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