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Yahoo Discloses Second Major Hack, More Than 1 Billion Accounts Compromised

Oblivious.Robot said:
God damn it. I knew I should've switched long time ago. :mad:
As someone with at least 3 active yahoo accounts, am a complete idiot.

Can someone please recommend a better alternative?
Am opening Gmail accounts as we speak!
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Let me know too, I've been trying to switch to gmail but all my mail filters and websites that I used my yahoo account for that I can't remember all of them to change them have kept me there.
 
I don't care if anyone reads my email. Hack all you want. Nothing to see. And everyone else who uses email should use it knowing it's being read by others. Compose your emails accordingly.
 
These things are going to continue to happen as long as operating systems and computer programs are constantly being updated with new versions and new features. Things are just too complicated at this point to properly test everything.
 
mac_in_tosh said:
These things are going to continue to happen as long as operating systems and computer programs are constantly being updated with new versions and new features. Things are just too complicated at this point to properly test everything.
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Let me correct that for you. "Things are just too complicated at this point to properly test everything" and give it away for free.
 
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yaxomoxay said:
Oh boy, I miss the days. (Altavista was and still is my favorite)

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I am getting old.
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Geesh, I still remember the days when Yahoo was hand edited by the founders. You would create a website and submit to Yahoo and if your site wasn't listed within a few days you could fire off an email and get a response from Jerry Yang apologizing for being so busy.

I feel realllllllly old.
 
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Had or have (don't even know) a Yahoo! account years ago.
Not even sure what my email address was.
I'd bet many or most of those affected accounts are more or less zombie accounts, like mine.
 
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People wondering who uses a Yahoo accounts these days, Flickr changed it so you had to have one.
 
I expect more of this over the next decade. This amazes me that every government organisation on the planet wants all the data of their citizens - all they are doing it piling up mountains digital gold for thieves to go after.
 
Wonderful. I've been telling myself for months to switch everything to icloud but I'm lazy and didn't want to go in and change all of my accounts.
 
A yahoo account possibly included was Huma Abedin's which may have had Clinton classified emails.
 
Absolute EPIC EFFING FAIL. 3+ years after the attack which exposed every single user of Yahoo, they let us know today? They should go belly up within a week. Disgraceful.
 
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I changed my password etc. after the September announcement. If this "new" breach happened back in 2013, is there any reason I should bother to do so a second time?

I would abandon Yahoo, but I stupidly built my website on the Yahoo Small Business platform and I'm not at all sure how to switch everything over to another provider. Time to actually hire a website management company, I guess....
 
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