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At Least 500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked in Late 2014

ineedamac said:
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.
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Trouble is, here is what a lot of people do simply because of the hassle involved, let’s assume I work for MacRumors for a second or two;
When I join up they ask for strong password. I put iLovemacs_01.
Three months later I have to update it and I put iLovemacs_02.
Six months later I have to update it and I put iLovemacs_03.
………………….Fast forward
Three years later I have to update it and I put iLovemacs_12.
 
ABSOLUTE DISGRACE its taken nearly 2 YEARS to admit to this.
Shame on you Yahoo, shame on you Marissa Mayer- good luck new owner sue old owner - I would.


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Tannerjr said:
While experts debate the exact number, it is estimated that only a few hundred people will be affected as most forgot they had a yahoo account after SPAM took over their inboxes.
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You can not be anymore right! I know I had couple of Yahoo emails and last time I checked one of them couple of years ago it was flooded with spam. Using gmail and iCloud email nowdays
 
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H2SO4 said:
Trouble is, here is what a lot of people do simply because of the hassle involved, let’s assume I work for MacRumors for a second or two;
When I join up they ask for strong password. I put iLovemacs_01.
Three months later I have to update it and I put iLovemacs_02.
Six months later I have to update it and I put iLovemacs_03.
………………….Fast forward
Three years later I have to update it and I put iLovemacs_12.
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A password manager is useful. It generates passwords. Very little hassle.
 
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temna said:
Umm, because I've had my account since the early 90s and I don't trust Google..
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And how's trusting Yahoo working out for you? And the 499,999 others.


Yahoo seemed to me to have a very odd business model. For example, years ago I used to use their auction site as an alternative to eBay (before eBay got even more greedy) then one day they just decided to can it.

It was very odd, with little or no explanation, least that I could be bothered to find. At the time they were the only serious contenders to eBay and seemed to have the foot traffic to be a major online auction player.
 
dazz87 said:
who has time changing their password every 3 months.
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It takes me about an hour every 3 months. Done while watching sport. A password manager & generator makes it easier than it used to be.
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dazz87 said:
what happen if they hack your account on the 2nd month.........?
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That depends - of course - on what kind of account got hacked and how important it is to you. In this yahoo scenario - for example - whoever hacked the yahoo mail accounts has been able to read emails for 2 years - if the password remains the same.
If passwords were changed every 3 months - they would have been able to access the account for one month in your "2nd month" example.
One may not care about somebody having access to your yahoo account, there may be accounts one does not want hackers to have access to for 2 years.
There are studies which claim password changing is useful, others claim it is is not beneficial. I don't mind spending 1 hour even 3 months on this, choosing to believe it makes things safer.
 
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monkeybagel said:
This is yet another reason that "cloud computing" should be avoided. It is little more than a recurring revenue model for companies that cannot improve their products enough to warrant users and customers to upgrade or pay for maintenance costs.
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Are you serious? Stupidest thing I heard all week on this forum, and thats saying something.
 
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I actually do use Yahoo as my primary mail account and gmail as a dummy account for signup purposes. I feel the spam issues they had in the early days are gone (at least in my inbox).
I think all IT companies can and will be (or have been) subject to hacking sooner or later (including Apple and Google).
My reasoning is that since all those companies collect (at least part of) your personal data, it's better not to put all your eggs in the same basket:
- centralized storage: personal NAS + USB backup for important docs (no cloud storage for me)
- search engine, maps, etc.: Google
- mail: Yahoo!
- PC: Microsoft
- Mobile: iPhone/iPad
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but if no one company has my "whole picture", I do feel somewhat more at ease... (even if I don't really have anything to hide - it's the principle)
 
For the love of god - why are people still using Yahoo? Why is Yahoo even still around? Their homepage looks like 1995 and if you get an yahoo email it will be hacked.
 
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I only use Yahoo! mail because it is retro and makes my extra-hipsterish. I like to play E.T. on my Atari 2600 while listening to vinyl as I compose email from my Yahoo! account. It makes me feel so cool as I squint through my thick black rimmed glasses and scratch my ironic tree logger beard.

But seriously though, I tried to ditch my yahoo email but it is tied to my Apple ID, which I can't seem to default to my iCloud email, which sucks. I just want one email account and that is it. I'd rather just have my iCloud for email and no others, but Apple won't let me do that. I thought about switching to gmail but, for obvious privacy reasons, it is not any better than yahoo. So what is the best imap email alternative to yahoo/google?
 
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truthertech said:
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.
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Yeah, but I don't know how to help MacRumors stay in business unless I view some ads on it. And the site loads so few ads it isn't that big a deal either. And if I turn off all the ads, then aren't a freeloading off of MacRumors and the other folks who don't turn off the ads?
 
Yahoo does not believe unprotected passwords, payment card data, or bank account information was accessed
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Hellllo!?! Anybody home at Yahoo!? Hackers got names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birthdates, hashed passwords, and both encrypted and unencrypted security questions and answers...
Wake the f* up Yahoo!
 
nice to hear about an attack is late 2014 in late 2016
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paul4339 said:
two years?? is this because they didn't know they were hacked much later?
Or did they know they were hacked in 2014, but didn't want to notify their users (bad press, etc).
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apparently they have known about it all along but were "investigating" it.
 
garirry said:
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 ****).
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The word Trust and Google should not be used in the same sentence. Google doesn't need to be hacked they just share and sell all your info anyway.
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dannyyankou said:
This is why I use iCloud and Gmail

After that hack, I dumped them
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Don't worry Google will let you know next year that they were hacked last year.
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
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.
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Or just use https://www.startpage.com , google search results with complete privacy protection.
You can even set it as default search machine in Safari.
 
Yahoo will inform the hacked members... how will they do that if the accounts aren't in use? I know (I think) I have several Yahoo accounts. I have NO idea what they are. I have over 500 logins in my password manager, not one of them is a Yahoo login. Meaning I've not used a Yahoo login in over six years. LOL is all I can say....

Were Y! accounts hooked to notification emails? If mine were hooked to a vanity domain one I used to use, that's dead, also. :)
 
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