Yandex blocked the entrance to your email accounts with passwords of which appeared on the Internet – Radio Echo of Moscow

Yandex blocked the entrance to your email accounts with passwords of which appeared on the Internet – Radio Echo of Moscow

The company claims that its infrastructure is not compromised, and all the data flowed from the users themselves.
 

In the open access has got more than a million passwords from electronic boxes on the service “Yandex.Mail.” On the eve of one of the authors wrote community “Habrahabr.” Since then, many bloggers have found in the published base their accounts. Passwords to them proved to be correct. Meanwhile, the press office of Yandex points: this leak – not a deliberate attack, and the result of gathering information about users for a long time. The vast majority of accounts of the dissemination of the network does not appear in the first time. The company has already warned the owners of the burglary, the remaining boxes also dropped a new password, without which it is impossible to get in the mail. In Yandex believe that hackers could steal data or use of viruses, or through false sites that ask for information about users. In turn, Roscomnadzor promises to probe into the large-scale leakage, if it so request.
 

Meanwhile, in the hacking community Anonymous claimed that the database service users’ Yandex.Mail “was published a month ago.
 

“VKontakte” froze all user accounts that are registered to your mailbox “Yandex” caught in the public domain. This was reported by the press service of the social network, according to ITAR-TASS.