At Least 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked in Late 2014

[ArtOfWarfare]

Yahoo only has 280 M email accounts - who the heck signs up for anything other than email with Yahoo?

Anyways, this is just proof that any company can be hacked and you shouldn't allow any of them to gather data on you.

Google knows your employer, your income, what hours you work, your home address, your family, and your friends. They know when and where you're going on vacation. The list goes on and on for 600 pages.

Do you really want all of that data to be in the hands of the highest bidder after a hacker breaks into Google's databases?

Use DuckDuckGo.com. When they get hacked, it won't matter, because DDG never stored your data. Your info can't be compromised because it was never collected.

 

[newdeal]

2 *$#(@ years later they let people know! This is a disgrace!
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Yahoo also said it is a state sponsored hack

must be North Korea

 

[powertoold]

Yahoo is a piece of ****. Their mail is trying to be all modern but is slow as ****. God damn it.

 

[garirry]

Umm, because I've had my account since the early 90s and I don't trust Google..

So you trust a company that regularly pays other people to install their ultra-suspicious toolbars more over a company which has done very little amount of shady stuff compared to other companies?

 

[2457282]

i stopped using yahoo due to the bazillions of junk and spam emails. I switched to gmail. That was becoming a problem. Now I have been on a .me account with Apple for 5 years and things seem to be fairly stable. I still have the yahoo account but have not gone into it in years. May need the hacker to give me my password I also have the gmail account only because I used it to sign up for my Apple ID and now I cannot get rid of it

 

[JosephAW]

Yeah, we experience a problem with yahoo. We purchased ink through a yahoo store two weeks ago and this week our CC company called us and asked if we were buying stuff in NY city. Nope. All denied but troublesome none the less. New CC on the way.

 

[rroach3753]

Yahoo has 500 million users?

Right! They should have also suggested to get a Gmail or Outlook.com account as a remedial step!

 

[ItsNotaTumor]

I just recently removed my Yahoo mail account that I started in 1997 from my phone. I was only using it for dating website communication, ie: failure and disappointment.

 

[truthertech]

I think the experts will tell you "nothing is hack proof." Its just a matter of time.

"Gmail?

This is why I use iCloud and Gmail

After that hack, I dumped them

"Gmail"??? Seriously? You do know that Google scans every one of the emails you send and receive and they can be kept forever as Google builds it dossier on you to sell to advertisers, release to law enforcement, and of course, be hacked by intelligence agencies and criminals. As one member of the intel community said, "if Google didn't exist, we'd have to invent it." Think about it. How could you ever assemble every thought, however private, that someone put into a message, every place a person drove or traveled to, everything someone watched or listened to, everything someone read, posted, commented on, liked/disliked, every photo they took or appeared in, what someone has bought, every friend, contact, family member and all of their information. All on Google. Like the man said, "if Google didn't exist, we'd have to invent it."

As Google said early on, it wanted to gather all of the information in the world. What they didn't say was that they were building dossiers on everyone in the world. When they make 90% of their profits from selling ads--you are the product and that's not going to change. (Sigh of relief from Chinese government)

 

[kazmac]

Well, I discovered this yesterday trying to erase and restore my 6s. My iPhone is locked and Safari is corrupted. Have to do a clean erase and install of my iMac overnight and create a new email at Google. YAY! I dread having to copy the information from hundreds of emails from the last nine years tonight before I do the back up. Thankfully, I never wrote out full passwords on any of those emails...

My supervisor heard about this today before I did, so I appreciate macrumors reporting it. I now hear "F UUUUUUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOhhhh!" in their logo yodel.

 

[simonmet]

How funny that I closed my Yahoo account just a few weeks ago.

Seriously why use Yahoo anymore? Something like Google is much better and still much more trustworthy (especially considering Yahoo's toolbar thing, which is suspicious as ****).

Yeah enjoy Google when you email someone about something and then suddenly start noticing ads about that thing populating your browser.

Creepy.

 

[Black Magic]

How funny that I closed my Yahoo account just a few weeks ago.

Seriously why use Yahoo anymore? Something like Google is much better and still much more trustworthy (especially considering Yahoo's toolbar thing, which is suspicious as ****).

Yahoo is better than GMAIL on iOS because of PUSH vs Fetch. Spam is minimal to none on newer accounts versus accounts created years ago. They have 2 Step Verification as well so they are able to hang with Google.

 

[macs4nw]

Yahoo what the f***!!!!??? Two years to tell us to change our passwords??? Bye bye forever!

I may be off here, but I too find it hard to believe it took them two years to find out they've been hacked, wtf?
Either that or those hackers are really, really, really good!! Note to self: Must change passwords more often.

 

[Mizouse]

You need a Yahoo account for Flickr, that's why they had 500 million accounts.

 

[Prince134]

Yahoo today confirmed that "at least" 500 million Yahoo accounts were compromised in an attack in late 2014, leaking customer information like names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birthdates, hashed passwords, and both encrypted and unencrypted security questions and answers.

Yahoo does not believe unprotected passwords, payment card data, or bank account information was accessed, as that data is not stored in the system that was hacked. According to Yahoo, account information was stolen by a "state-sponsored actor" and the company is working with law enforcement on a full investigation.

Starting today, Yahoo will notify all affected users and is asking them to change their passwords immediately if passwords have not been changed since 2014. All compromised security questions and answers have also been invalidated. Yahoo has laid out a set of recommendations for all customers who might have had data stolen:Yahoo first said it was investigating a data breach earlier this summer after hackers started selling account access online. The full scope of the attack was not revealed until today and could potentially affect Yahoo's sale to Verizon.

Article Link: At Least 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked in Late 2014

Everybody should watch the movie: Snowden. It's in theater now. Who the hacker is? I don't know. But it worth for everybody to think about.

 

[iapplelove]

I couldn't remember my yahoo credentials even if I tried
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You need a Yahoo account for Flickr, that's why they had 500 million accounts.

Only reason I had one.

 

[576316]

Damn. I used to pay for Flickr Pro and my Apple ID master account is Yahoo.

 

[VulchR]

I wonder if this affects UK BT accounts, which were originally hosted via Yahoo...

 

[AllergyDoc]

You need a Yahoo account for Flickr, that's why they had 500 million accounts.

I forgot about that.

And I can't figure out how to delete the accounts anyway. It's proving to be impossible online and when you call the number they tell you to call you can't do anything without a wireless number or an AT&T account number. I have neither with them. I'll just have my gmail account stop getting email from the two accounts.

 

[sudo1996]

Umm, because I've had my account since the early 90s and I don't trust Google..

I wouldn't trust Yahoo! any more; actually, I'd trust them a lot less. They're a malware company as far as I'm concerned, preying on less experienced computer users by spreading their toolbars and browser hijackers. I'm not just talking about the Yahoo! Toolbar that gets bundled with Java and stuff. Go into the depths of the Internet, install cyber-AIDS on a Windows XP machine, and chances are, it'll include Yahoo!-sponsored link replacement / ad injection in your browser. I've seen this happen several times.

Also, Google is less likely to accidentally leak information.
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Yahoo is a piece of ****. Their mail is trying to be all modern but is slow as ****. God damn it.

Their mail system works fine in terms of speed and reliability. I've never used it as a main account, but certainly as a fake/signup/unimportant account, it's been great. Same with AOL. They've both been better than Google, in fact, because Google kept changing their auth methods and screwing up IMAP clients. The only reason I'd never use it as a main is because Yahoo! is notoriously insecure and sketchy.

 

[WilliamG]

Yahoo what the f***!!!!??? Two years to tell us to change our passwords??? Bye bye forever!

No kidding. This is the nail in Yahoo's already closed coffin.

 

[Macalway]

I had (past tense) an account.

Nostalgia

 

[sudo1996]

Yeah enjoy Google when you email someone about something and then suddenly start noticing ads about that thing populating your browser.

Creepy.

Ads? What are ads?

 

[mtcowdog]

Lovely. Verizon must have buyer's regret right now. And as a Yahoo! user, for flickr only, I think I might have appreciated knowing this, say, 2 years ago. Verizon might have appreciated that too.

 

[fatalogic]

"Gmail?



"Gmail"??? Seriously? You do know that Google scans every one of the emails you send and receive and they can be kept forever as Google builds it dossier on you to sell to advertisers, release to law enforcement, and of course, be hacked by intelligence agencies and criminals. As one member of the intel community said, "if Google didn't exist, we'd have to invent it." Think about it. How could you ever assemble every thought, however private, that someone put into a message, every place a person drove or traveled to, everything someone watched or listened to, everything someone read, posted, commented on, liked/disliked, every photo they took or appeared in, what someone has bought, every friend, contact, family member and all of their information. All on Google. Like the man said, "if Google didn't exist, we'd have to invent it."

As Google said early on, it wanted to gather all of the information in the world. What they didn't say was that they were building dossiers on everyone in the world. When they make 90% of their profits from selling ads--you are the product and that's not going to change. (Sigh of relief from Chinese government)

You do realize that just about every major retailer and corporation has a "dossier" as you say on every customer. Target got so good at profiling their customers they could tell if a woman was pregnant before she knew. It's the age of big data just about every company has tons of information about you. Even if apple does store the information doesn't mean they aren't buying it. In fact I would wager to say they would be stupid not to buy it. There is no privacy anymore. You can do your best to keep yourself safe but the reality is there are too many holes to plug. One major vulnerability people don't even realize is the healthcare industry. There are hacks going on hospitals and medical centers and people are none the wiser. So unless you just want to give up the internet and go live in the forest you are not safe anywhere. Apple is not some super bubble of hacker/privacy invulnerability. If someone really wants your information they will get it.