Both sites have had their user passwords stolen AND the results published on the internet. For details, look at these articles:
I can't stress enough the importance of looking at these articles. For those who wonder what happened to your ATT/Yahoo account, these articles show you how it was done. The "salting" discussion shows why some sites are safer than others, even though you might not have the strongest password. The net on how "they" do it is that there are lists of passwords out there that are sold to the bad people. The bad people don't try to break your password by random choices, they use these lists in intelligent ways to limit the number of tries to any one account.
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