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

What an awful company. I keep my account only because I have grandfathered Flickr pro. Used to use their email years ago. I'm sure that's been breached a million times by now (so I hope the hackers are having fun with 20 year old emails about where a bunch of hungover college students want to meet for dinner).
 
They notified me this time. I had not realized I had another two accounts with them.
They've now been removed - I should be clear.
 
That's why I cancelled all my Yahoo accounts the first time this happened.

BTW, Apple is just one more major hack away from cancelling all my Apple accounts so they are on thin wire too.
 
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

"hack by an unauthorized third party in August of 2013" The comments above seem to neglect the fact that the hack was more than 3 years ago and was discovered in November of this year when "the hack was discovered after law enforcement officials provided the company with what appeared to be Yahoo user data from an unknown source."

If you as a Yahoo mail user changed your password, as suggested, within the past year, you should not have to worry about someone using your info … although you should still expect the scam emails from Mexico, Romania, Tel Aviv, Pakistan, Venezuela, Morocco, Russia, Germany, UK, China, Vietnam, Tunisia, Brazil, Latvia, and, of course, Nigeria.

Opening a Gmail account will provide you with other sources of spam as the Gmail is scanned for key words and ads will pop up based on those key words.
 
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You have to cut Yahoo some slack, most of their resources were devoted to working on the cutting edge Yahoo Messenger app.
 
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Well, I closed out my yahoo account. Something I should have done when word first broke out about the first hacking
 
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Such a mess. Thank goodness I ONLY have a yahoo account to use as my junk mail signup account. It has no real info for me. Yahoo is such a hot freaking mess.
 
I really need to go and start deleting from my Yahoo account and close it down. Was my first email and used it for many years.
 
doctor-don said:
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

"hack by an unauthorized third party in August of 2013" The comments above seem to neglect the fact that the hack was more than 3 years ago and was discovered in November of this year when "the hack was discovered after law enforcement officials provided the company with what appeared to be Yahoo user data from an unknown source."

If you as a Yahoo mail user changed your password, as suggested, within the past year, you should not have to worry about someone using your info … although you should still expect the scam emails from Mexico, Romania, Tel Aviv, Pakistan, Venezuela, Morocco, Russia, Germany, UK, China, Vietnam, Tunisia, Brazil, Latvia, and, of course, Nigeria.

Opening a Gmail account will provide you with other sources of spam as the Gmail is scanned for key words and ads will pop up based on those key words.
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For a moment, I thought you were talking about Hotmail. "Nuthin' but Spam..."
 
mariusignorello said:
Used for security only. I've had them for years.
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What they are doing with your phone number is one thing. Having a mobile phone number in the first place is another. I don't have one, so this means I cannot open such an account, right?
 
Yeah, and be thankful for that. There's no way I'm giving them my phone number. If they went with Google Authenticator, that would have saved them, but they didn't. And now it's over.
 
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hauntvictim said:
So how do I change my iTunes account. It is with Yahoo and I would like to ditch them.
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I don't think you can. This is something that Apple knows is an issue (people, especially their oldest customers) have changed their email address. But Apple doesn't want to mess with changing that ID which they use all over their business.
 
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TallManNY said:
I don't think you can. This is something that Apple knows is an issue (people, especially their oldest customers) have changed their email address. But Apple doesn't want to mess with changing that ID which they use all over their business.
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Ugh, yes just noticed that I can not. Nor can I merge my @me account into it.
SIGH... guess I will create a new one. Now which provider eeck.
 
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B4U said:
Easy for computer program algorithm to guess.
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How so? With the use of longer passwords that also contain numbers and special characters, how does that make it easier for algorithms to guess (especially compared to shorter passwords that don't even use numbers or special characters)?
 
farewelwilliams said:
who still uses yahoo for anything anymore?

besides maybe flickr.
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AND....... for Porn ;) stuff.
[doublepost=1481863464][/doublepost]This IS WHY I ONLY use Verizon and iCloud mail with my real info and fake names/profile for Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail. Who are these people who uses their real names, address and credit cards to create a profile/account with Yahoo, Hotmail and Gmail :rolleyes: Good god, WHEN will people learn....... On the other hand, look at the ones that helped to elect Trump - hopeless.
 
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PBMB said:
What they are doing with your phone number is one thing. Having a mobile phone number in the first place is another. I don't have one, so this means I cannot open such an account, right?
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It's required for account verification. Try using a Google Voice number.
 
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