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At Least 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked in Late 2014
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Didn't know Yahoo! offered push mail. Hmm. Sounds like Google's war on Apple has made their mail less usable on iOS. Anyway, I use iCloud mail.
Well this was actually helpful. I've had a yahoo account for a long time. I never used the email for anything but signing up for things when I thought there was a risk of getting junk and spam later (use mailinator now instead) and eventually when Yahoo acquired Flickr then my Flickr account was the same one.
Time passed, I hadn't logged in for some time. Went to comment in a group I am in on Flickr, and when I tried to log in it wanted me to answer my security question because of 'something suspicious happening on my account'. I tried, I am pretty sure I know the answer I would have given it to that particular question, but it didn't like it and I have been effectively locked out ever since.
Until today. The security questions were part of what got compromised, so they are gone. So as a direct result of this massive breach I can actually log back in to my Flickr account again.
One final note: I hate Yahoo. For a whole array of reasons, but for sure one of them is that they took Flickr and made it something less than it was before they touched it.
Time passed, I hadn't logged in for some time. Went to comment in a group I am in on Flickr, and when I tried to log in it wanted me to answer my security question because of 'something suspicious happening on my account'. I tried, I am pretty sure I know the answer I would have given it to that particular question, but it didn't like it and I have been effectively locked out ever since.
Until today. The security questions were part of what got compromised, so they are gone. So as a direct result of this massive breach I can actually log back in to my Flickr account again.
One final note: I hate Yahoo. For a whole array of reasons, but for sure one of them is that they took Flickr and made it something less than it was before they touched it.
I use iCloud as well but I want my secondary accounts to have push capability. Outlook.com and Yahoo! meet that request.
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Well make sure your passwords aren't the same across various sites and services. Also use 2 Step Verification which Yahoo has.
The story should be. "Yahoo! uses hack to make false claims about numbers of users."
Ironically I know my parents have yahoo accounts, they still use em. Maybe I can finally convince them a new email is in order.
Ironically I know my parents have yahoo accounts, they still use em. Maybe I can finally convince them a new email is in order.
Had a Yahoo account years ago, Couldn't tell you what the username or PW was today to save my life. Nothing important ever went to it anyway. I'll stick with iCloud, Gmail and my ISP.
Don't give up so easily. There are steps you can take to maximize your privacy. Primarily using Apple's ecosystem. It's not perfect, but Apple's system is not built on selling your info, and their philosophy is very different. Incentives are everything. Google makes 90% of revenue from ads. Sad. Facebook wouldnt exist if they weren't selling your information. Zuckerberg even said he thought people were too focused on privacy LOL. Many steps you can take that help': if you use Apple Pay, the stores don't have your info. If you use Apple Mail, your emails aren't scanned and saved. If you use iMessage, your texts, etc., are encrypted and not saved. If you use DuckDuckGo, your searches aren't saved. Apple maps doesn't store everywhere you've driven like Google maps. ETC.! If you use content blockers, or better VPN, you will stop most web harvesting.(Keeping fingers crossed Apple builds this in when they unveil new AFS next year!).
Remember Churchill in the face of the Nazi's seeming inevitable victory. "Never give up."
sign of a totally disfunctioning company: you can't change anything including your birthday in your profile on yahoo right now.
https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Manage-...ahoo-Account-How-to-change-birthday/td-p/2574
https://forums.yahoo.net/t5/Manage-...ahoo-Account-How-to-change-birthday/td-p/2574
Does this explain all the spam from from known contacts that are also from Yahoo. I've gotten many of those in the past 2-3 years, from multiple people on Yahoo, spamming everyone on their Yahoo contact lists. Good thing I told my SO to move all the important stuff off Yahoo and stop using it.
Apple iCloud accounts would be a major treasure with all the backup data that users are encouraged to place there.
Yahoo is older than Google. Likely many of those accounts are not used anymore, but considering that 500 million is only 1/14th of the world population, and many Asians choose Yahoo for email, this number is actually not that high.
I would guess 90% of those are no longer active...good luck remembering the password to those accounts...this was before Keychain
I'm very surprised by the recent "late" reports of data breaches by these companies. Seems to be happening more and more. Crazy year we've had...
Never had a Yahoo account, but this is negligence in my honest opinion. Swap Google in the headline and the world will turn, swap Apple, it's a crap show, swap Samsung, all bad variables. Who actually uses Yahoo anymore?
Doing all of that extra stuff is just wasting your time unfortunately—especially if they take 2 years to notify you.
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You do not change your passwords every 90 days? Most corporate systems require that. When my job notifies me it is time to change my password, I change that one and all personal ones as well.