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AOL investigates cyber attack, says user data compromised [April 29, 2014] BOSTON (Reuters) — AOL Inc on Monday urged its tens of millions of email account holders to change their passwords and security questions after a cyber attack compromised about 2 percent of its accounts. |
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The company said it was working with federal
authorities to investigate the attack, in which hackers obtained
email addresses, postal addresses, encrypted passwords and
answers to security questions used to reset passwords. It said there was no indication that the encryption on that data
had been broken. A company spokesman declined to say how many email accounts are
registered on its system. AOL said that it identified the breach after noticing a
"significant" increase in the amount of spam appearing as
spoofed emails from AOL addresses. Such emails do not originate
from a sender's service provider, but their addresses are edited
to make them appear that way. (Reporting by Jim Finkle; editing by Richard Valdmanis and Sofina Mirza-Reid) [© 2014 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved.] Copyright 2014 Reuters. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,
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