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Yahoo Discloses Second Major Hack, More Than 1 Billion Accounts Compromised
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Is this Yahoo's sad attempt at trying to stay relevant? As if they actually have 1 billion live accounts. Wait they're still in business? What do they do ... other than a home page ... search is a joke.
Flickr is the only reason I still hope Yahoo survives. Their search stinks, as do most of their other services.
Their search is just Bing search which is considered fairly decent. As for other services it depends on the services. Finance and sports have been and are seen as quite good, for example.
Just remember, whenever you think Apple has made something stupid or poorly designed...
It could be worse. They could be Yahoo.
It could be worse. They could be Yahoo.
So I went to close my Yahoo account (finally) but then the fine print said something along the lines of about 90 days later they can and will recycle my name....so I didn't close. 90 days seems too short for recycling? Thoughts, just close it, or squat on the name? I did change my password.
You and me both. I used to use Yahoo in college but now use that account for junk mail. It's filled with promotions from London Heathrow airport (they used to require an email to get access to free wifi) and other software vendors that require your email to download their products.
You don't understand the maliciousness of such hacks. A lot of people use the same password for everything, so the hackers will be able to compromise everything a user uses that email address & combination for, such as social media, Amazon, eBay, PayPal etc etc etc. They can also reset account passwords with ease once they have access to your main accounts.
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Change passwords? You should delete your Yahoo account immediately.
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Just close it!
Urgh can't Yahoo just die already? Literally nobody needs them around any more and they're doing nothing useful. I knew my account had been hacked the first time when I started getting 20 spam emails a day offering me free sex and Viagra, even though I never used that email address anywhere - it was just my Apple ID. Needless to say, I no longer use Yahoo services.
Sadly, closed my Flicker account that I opened in 2007. Frack those Yahoo clowns. I did a lot of work on my site and contributed a lot. It was great while it lasted. Thank Yahoo. You're done.
In the UK the word 'yahoo' is not an exuberant cry of joy and freedom, but a word referring to a bunch of people likely to be reckless, arrogant, untrustworthy and general unsuited to responsibility. That was the meaning that sprang to mind when I first saw the company name Yahoo, so I avoided them.
Funny how things turn out sometimes.
Funny how things turn out sometimes.
And you know this how exactly? I can tell that I need them. I have a Yahoo account since many years and I use it regularly. Today I received an e-mail from them notifying me about this breach but since the incident dates back to 2013 and I was able to change my password this summer, I conclude that nobody took control of my account despite the hack. In their mail they say that they analyzed the law enforcement notification about this hack with the assistance of outside forensic experts, whatever this may mean.
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Ah, memories. The innocent days of the Internet.
This is why I have very little info in any cloud account. Nothing is safe in the info superhighway.
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I use gmail for business as I think it's safer, but nothing is completely fool proof. nothing.God damn it. I knew I should've switched long time ago.
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!
Guys, they didn't know about it until the government found their data elsewhere and alerted them. Criminally incompetent? Yes. But they have not been holding onto this for 3 years.
God damn it. I knew I should've switched long time ago.
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!
HA you don't have to worry about gmail getting hacked...they give the information away. I get sooo much unwarranted junk mail it's awful.
Worse than Yahoo! being hacked, was their failure to disclose it until years later. Worse than their failure to get their security right afterwards, was their abject negligence to do a damn thing about it, resulting in additional attacks. Worse than hiring an incompetent CEO to oversee this colossal disaster, was their Board's total indifference to said CEO running the company into the ground.
While I am overwhelmingly relieved at not owning any shares in this sinking, stinking clusterfudge, I still have to wonder what I may lose anyway, considering that I've had my Yahoo! email account from almost it's very beginnings.
When the first breach was disclosed earlier this year, I decided to start transitioning over my primary email to Hotmail. But that's not such a simple matter since many websites nowadays use an email address as the User ID. That creates quite a pain point when one considers all of ones consumer and other everyday activities online. It's quite a major undertaking, really, to switch a primary email address.
As for Yahoo!... once that company crashes, burns and is reduced to a lump of coal... Verizon can have whatever is left of it and stuff it... into it's own stocking. Why they or any other company would want whatever's left of Yahoo! Is beyond me.
Worse than Yahoo! dying, is dying with a horrible reputation. It won't be missed.
While I am overwhelmingly relieved at not owning any shares in this sinking, stinking clusterfudge, I still have to wonder what I may lose anyway, considering that I've had my Yahoo! email account from almost it's very beginnings.
When the first breach was disclosed earlier this year, I decided to start transitioning over my primary email to Hotmail. But that's not such a simple matter since many websites nowadays use an email address as the User ID. That creates quite a pain point when one considers all of ones consumer and other everyday activities online. It's quite a major undertaking, really, to switch a primary email address.
As for Yahoo!... once that company crashes, burns and is reduced to a lump of coal... Verizon can have whatever is left of it and stuff it... into it's own stocking. Why they or any other company would want whatever's left of Yahoo! Is beyond me.
Worse than Yahoo! dying, is dying with a horrible reputation. It won't be missed.
Google do not give away your details. Your details are sold by your bank, utility companies and any other company you may have dealt with in the past. Plus spam is sent out to 100's of millions of accounts each day. If you have a poor choice of e-mail address (name.surname@gmail.com, name[numbers]@gmail.com etc), then you will get more than other people.
Google & Outlook.com have reasonably good spam filters (Outlook's can sometimes be too aggressive) but everyone is going to get spam.
I have a junk spam catch all yahoo account that I used since the days when Yahoo started (5MB email inbox size!).
At least they let me know this time. That said, I moved to gmail years and years and years ago and just use my @yahoo for spam and places I HAVE to provide an email to sign up for. I think it gets 400+ spam emails a day.
Sad to see. I grew up with the awesome YAHOOOO commercials and billboards - played Yahoo Games in the 90s...
Above poster is right, Google's spam filter is amazing. I get 3-5 every 2-3 days and it learns so I never get the same twice (though I don't pay much attention).
At least they let me know this time. That said, I moved to gmail years and years and years ago and just use my @yahoo for spam and places I HAVE to provide an email to sign up for. I think it gets 400+ spam emails a day.
Sad to see. I grew up with the awesome YAHOOOO commercials and billboards - played Yahoo Games in the 90s...
Above poster is right, Google's spam filter is amazing. I get 3-5 every 2-3 days and it learns so I never get the same twice (though I don't pay much attention).