We did an analysis of the dump: http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/07/analysis-of-yahoo-voice-passw... Interesting is the lack of "yahoo" as part of the passwords... I would expect a much higher % from a yahoo leak.
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Yahoo Voices Hacked, Usernames and Passwords Posted Online.
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#22Is there a simple and free service that sends me an email once my address shows up in one of the various dumps that leak to the net these days?
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#23I can understand the joy feeling for someone to hack something, but what's the point of posting people's passwords online?
Could be blackmail gone unanswered (e.g pay us or we publish), could be hatred of Yahoo (either a competitioner, an employee, or just someone who feels wronged).
Or it could be a need to prove onself -- see what I can do, now fear my wrath.
Or it could simply be hatred of humanity, you embarrass people enough and they may lass out on you -- in this case by putting your password online, in other cases by bringing a gun to school.
Summing up, it strongly depends on who did it.
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#24I think these accounts were prior to Yahoo! Acquisition of associatedcontent. There is NO WAY for a "native" yahoo property to store plain text passwords. Of course this is a yahoo fault to buy a company with such a weak security... If this was a leak in yahoo, the number of users with a yahoo e-mail would be much, much higher.
I presume that means also that the passwords could be different from the actual yahoo account passwords? Of course people might have kept them the same...