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At Least 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked in Late 2014
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"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)
So true. And to justify their current stock price they need to build more revenue, probably close to double where they are now. They've got time to do that, years, but the stock market won't give them a price to earning valuation of 31 forever. Either the earnings need to go up or the stock price is going to come down. To get more revenue, they will have to sell more of their product. In other words, they have to sell more of us. And the engineers, who are paid in stock options, won't keep working if the stock price begins a slow and inevitable decline. So I can see desperate times where Google needs to find many 10s of billion of dollars of additional revenue.
Privacy Badger is telling me as many as 19 potential trackers. It is allowing some of them. I do like MacRumors and I don't mind them getting some ad revenue. And the site still loads quickly. Some very legit sites that I visit (sports related, for example) are so bogged down by the trackers and stuff that they load that you can barely get the page to open on a fast wired home connection!
A wise man once told me, "Nothing is impossible. It just takes a little longer."
Yeah read it today and thought it just happened went to change my password and then just found out it happened in 2014........smh
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most like me had it cause Gmail was not around yet.
You can use Ghostery to block the trackers. It lets ads through if you are in to that sort of thing. I can't imagine though why anyone would be comfortable with letting trackers be loaded that track your activity and send it back to some unknown company somewhere in the world that is building a profile on you. Why would you knowingly allow that???
You aren't safe anywhere. There are 2 kinds of companies out there:
1. Ones that got hacked and they know it. These mostly makes the news.
2. Ones that got hacked and don't know it.
Be careful out there. It's scarier than you realize.
I find that once most people try an ad blocker, they are astonished at the difference. I don't think most people unfortunately are even aware of how well they work. Once you can surf without the ads, popups, etc., and once you see how many different companies, not just Google, are tracking you on the web, you won't go back.
Am I the only one who's thinking blaming it on an unnamed "state-sponsored actor" (obviously, China or Russia) is a made-up cop out? It sounds more like it's some national security threat that is beyond the ability of anyone to stop, rather than being due to their own laziness or incompetence. And not many in the US look favorably upon the Chinese or Russian governments (except Trump), so it's an easy way to get people on your side. Or am I just too cynical?
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Yeah, I too have a Yahoo account. Was alerted about Yahoo's problem a few months ago in another forum. I changed my password and haven't had any problems since (even before). Yeah, when I signed up for Yahoo, I gave them a fake date for my birthday. I use Yahoo as a clearing house for places that I don't want others to have my actual email address.
Flickr is the real shame! I hope it finds a good home.
They also want to change your Yahoo password so they have sole control, have a password reset sent to it so they can use your Amazon and iTunes and lock you out of those as well, and keep going from there
They also want to change your Yahoo password so they have sole control, have a password reset sent to it so they can use your Amazon and iTunes and lock you out of those as well, and keep going from there
My different browsers have been hacked by Yahoo without my knowledge when I do a download...Google is gone and Yahoo becomes my default search engine....I hate them for that.
Some websites will ask for an email address so one can access the information they have. I normally put in "your@guess.com" as my email address. But I'm still able to use the website.
So TWO years ago this happened, right? Was it covered up for two years?
And I suspect Verizon will stop the deal in progress.
This is just another indicator of Ms. Mayer's incompetence. Yet, she made $100m per year regardless.
My guess is that Yahoo shareholders will sue Yahoo and if possible, Ms. Mayer herself for negligence.
I bet Ms. Mayer will resign within 30 days.
And I suspect Verizon will stop the deal in progress.
This is just another indicator of Ms. Mayer's incompetence. Yet, she made $100m per year regardless.
My guess is that Yahoo shareholders will sue Yahoo and if possible, Ms. Mayer herself for negligence.
I bet Ms. Mayer will resign within 30 days.
It's advisable to change passwords every couple of months, instead of waiting to told to change them.
Hacks happen all the time, with seeming increasing regularity; companies are often slow to report.
I change password every 3 months.
Better safe than sorry.
That's always the excuse "oh we could not have possibly defended against that" as if it lets them off
Governments regularly sell the data they collect in hacks on the dark web...