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Image credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images At least 400000 email addresses and passwords of Yahoo Voices' users, people authorized to post content on Yahoo, ...

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Image credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images At least 400,000 email addresses and passwords of Yahoo Voices’ users, people authorized to post content on Yahoo, were stolen and revealed by hackers, Yahoo confirmed today. “We confirm that an older file from Yahoo Contributor Network (previously Associated Content) containing approximately 400,000 Yahoo and other company users names and passwords was stolen yesterday, July 11,” Yahoo said in a statement. The hackers, who called themselves the D33Ds company, posted a full text document online containing the usernames and passwords, and said that it should be a “wake-up call” rather than a threat to Yahoo. “There have been many security holes exploited in webservers belonging to Yahoo...