Verizon Says All 3 Billion Yahoo Accounts Were Compromised in 2013 Attack

*whistling while Marissa Mayor floats away in her golden parachute*

 

Rule #1: They’re always lying

This was intentionally slow-walked to get past the acquisition.

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I’ll bet she knew the whole time. Disgraceful.

She needs to be called before Congress:

https://judiciary.house.gov/subcomm...ourts-intellectual-property-and-the-internet/

Drop these Members on the Committee a line and get her put in the hot seat.

 

It was just easier to say that all accounts were compromised.

 

What a farce. The words privacy and internet don’t belong in the same sentence. Makes ya wonder though...

 

How Yahoo handles the issue is the far bigger scandal.

 

Could be indicative of a pattern of behaviour in the corporate world. First Yahoo’s (mis)handling, and then Equifax’s. Not surprising, though. Profits trump all else with that mindset.

 

I believe there was a study some time ago showing the average intelligence and income of Yahoo users was lower than that of the other main competitors.

 

Slow clap for Marissa Mayer. I hope she faces some stiff penalties for what was clearly a deliberate scheme to keep the truth from being known for so long. It doesn't take four years to uncover the fact that your entire system of user accounts was breached. Four months, perhaps; but it would not have taken them four years to know that information.

 

At some point very soon, I'm pretty sure that bad actors are going to know all the verifiable information about everyone, including the answers to just about all security questions.

So what are the implications? It will be interesting.

 

I read earlier today is was closer to 500 trillion ...

 

To be fair, they might have missed a few

 

it will not take long with today's computers to decrypt hashed passwords from back then, so its safe to say that clear passwords were also stolen

 

Published alongside the study that showed that people like to make crap up on the internet? Yeah. I think I remember it.

 

What's more shocking is that Y actually had 3 billion accounts

 

Yahoo drove themselves into the ground. I’ll be shocked if Verizon doesn’t try to get money back on this.

 

I think the most annoying aspect is the fact that I can not change my Apple ID and am stuck with the horrible 80 spam emails a day for this Yahoo! account.

 

http://www.marketingcharts.com/demographics-and-audiences/household-income-366

Not exactly the one I’m thinking of, but along the same lines.

 

For the guys who stole all our info, my first pets name wasn’t actually Sir Fluffy Wuffy. I was lying.

Seriously though, this company should be shut down.

 

2,9 billion of them used only as stunt accounts for dating sites. lol.

 

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Of course you can change your Apple ID. You just can't use an iCloud, .me, etc. email. You can use Gmail, Outlook, or anything else. I got rid of my Gmail address and moved my ID to an Outlook address

 

Effective security costs $, which will be first to get cut when revenue is down. At least until there is a breach.

Most technology competent people know Yahoo has always been a cesspool for SPAM, ADWARE, and MALWARE. Ditto for AOL. Guests at my home don't understand why I block access YAHOO, AOL, FB, etc. If they don't like it, they can use their own service or data plan.

I have absolutely no idea what Verizon saw in Yahoo. Marissa Mayer's strategy was to cut costs and bulk up through acqusitions to solicit a premium during the sale, all while lining her pockets... pretty dresses. Congrats for executing flawlessly. Or she was completely incompetent and couldn't manage her way out of a paper bag.

 

And giggles all the way.

 

I’d like to see her called before Congress:

https://judiciary.house.gov/subcomm...ourts-intellectual-property-and-the-internet/

Drop these Members on the Committee a line.

 

So glad I never had a yahoo account. Never needed it