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Yahoo Warns Users of Third Data Breach As Verizon Closes in on Revised Deal

Is this for real?

As a Yahoo Mail user, I have received no such security warning.

Perhaps the warning was sent only to those users who had not enhanced the security of their accounts as was requested several YEARS ago. :rolleyes:
 
I have multiple Yahoo email accounts that I still use. Some go back a decade. Some to 2012. Some to late 2015.

Some were created as accounts for a future but not implemented purpose so are essentially dormant (others were used for mail exchange with a single big business customer) and only active via syncing of my imap/smtp mail clients.

Since day one of iCloud Keychain I enabled it and used it to create the 15 character default password it suggests for all sites I use including Yahoo.

From day one, that Yahoo (and any other site that allows it) made it available, I enabled 2FA in my Yahoo accounts.

Also I pulled Java & Flash from my Macs (and additionally Silverlight from my dirty PC.)

I live overseas and sometimes login to the Yahoo control panel via a vpn. Other than that my only contact to Yahoo is via my MacOS and iOS email clients.

So the access and usage is fairly consistent across all accounts.

I get spam in the 2010 era accounts that have only been used for those single big business customers. (Until the Breach was announced I wondered how spammers had found both of these unusually named accounts.)

As far as Yahoo contacting me they previously contacted me for all accounts created prior to 2015 (I subsequently reset all my Yahoo p/w just to be safe.).

Yahoo's latest communication was only sent to one single 2009 era account (the secondary one that I use daily for non critical things) but not to the other accounts previously flagged.

Given the similar usage of all the accounts, I would have thought more accounts might have received this latest notification. I don't yet see the pattern if it's there (but am suspecting my dirty PC as opposed to my Apple menagerie.)

I'm disappointed that Yahoo couldn't be bothered to inform customers which device and date and location, etc gave rise to the cookie concern, so that a customer could Review, scan, reinstall or discard that device.

Yahoo! Did a disservice to their customers by not keeping up to date with best practices, being slow to alert (obviously to avoid bad PR and share price declines and bonus hits) and then not giving them any actionable data or advice.
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doctor-don said:
Is this for real?

As a Yahoo Mail user, I have received no such security warning.

Perhaps the warning was sent only to those users who had not enhanced the security of their accounts as was requested several YEARS ago. :rolleyes:
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Please see my other note.
 
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Only a 5% discount? Man, Verizon's negotiators must suck or else their bankers don't want the price to drop too much because it will reduce their fees.
 
A $250M price slash? They might want to reconsider this number after counting how many people have since left this sinking Yapoo! ship.
 
I need to leave Yahoo Mail immediately

Can someone help? What's the best method to off load my Yahoo emails to another email service?

I really hate Gmail, any other alternatives?
 
Up until a couple days ago I still had one active yahoo account, I had 3 in the past. I closed all of them and feel much better now :)...
 
Fafafoooey said:
Add that Yahoo has stopped push email (at least to IOS native email http://bit.ly/2kt22vQ) and this shows how poorly Yahoo has been managed since Jerry was REALLY calling the shots.
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I was wondering why I hadn't been getting push notifications for my mail lately. Thought it was 'cuz I'm on iOS 10.3 beta. Thanks for the info. That sucks.
 
Security is very hard to keep current as the tools for breaches becomes broader and more accessible. It requires a lot of investment in time, money, and people to keep things secure for today. I suspect that Yahoo slacked off on one of those before. And now that they have a reputation for being breached they're the target of even more breaches and find they're even more vulnerable. This will be worse before it gets better for them.
 
Fafafoooey said:
Add that Yahoo has stopped push email (at least to IOS native email http://bit.ly/2kt22vQ) and this shows how poorly Yahoo has been managed since Jerry was REALLY calling the shots.
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I noticed this, ever since they stopped pushing emails to the native iOS app I can't retrieve emails at all anymore. Now since they removed push, I cannot seem to even get the emails sent to me even under fetch settings. I been using the yahoo email app, but I would rather use the iOS app. Not sure if it is Apple that broke the app, or yahoo.
 
willmtaylor said:
@eyoungren , you still gonna stick them 'em?
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Don't see a reason why not. I've had the account for 18 years. I only use it for entities/people whom I believe will either spam me or I don't wish having my primary email address. It's got a strong spam filter so I don't see the spam and I don't have a credit card attached to it.

On top of that I have two factor authentication on.

I'm not going to say that I am not concerned (of course I am) but I don't see a reason to close the account.

Had this been my main account I'd be worried, but it's not. If something does happen I'll deal with it as it comes.

EDIT: Additionally, I have not received this message from Yahoo. So, it would appear that at least right now, I am not one of those affected.
 
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Walk away from this deal, Verizon. Be satisfied with the additional revenue you'll get from your new unlimited plan and leave it at that.
 
eyoungren said:
Don't see a reason why not. I've had the account for 18 years. I only use it for entities/people whom I believe will either spam me or I don't wish having my primary email address. It's got a strong spam filter so I don't see the spam and I don't have a credit card attached to it.

On top of that I have two factor authentication on.

I'm not going to say that I am not concerned (of course I am) but I don't see a reason to close the account.

Had this been my main account I'd be worried, but it's not. If something does happen I'll deal with it as it comes.

EDIT: Additionally, I have not received this message from Yahoo. So, it would appear that at least right now, I am not one of those affected.
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Well, historically, they'll let you know in 2-3 years. :p
 
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Boston007 said:
I need to leave Yahoo Mail immediately

Can someone help? What's the best method to off load my Yahoo emails to another email service?

I really hate Gmail, any other alternatives?
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You could go with a microsoft account if you really don't like Gmail.
I moved from Yahoo! to Gmail in December. In Gmail settings, there is an import tab where you can transfer all emails and contacts and it did just that with everything from my Yahoo! account. Once everything was imported, I deleted everything in the Yahoo! account. Super easy.
 
maflynn said:
I cancelled and deleted my yahoo account.

I never really used them for emails so I'm happy about that, but the last hacking (prior to this) caused to me act. I recommend moving off of them
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I don't use Yahoo mail, but do have a Yahoo account thanks to being a Flickr user for many years. I nearly cancelled it after the last breach, but I think this time I'll actually follow through with it: I'll miss Flickr, but I think enough is enough!
 
logicstudiouser said:
You could go with a microsoft account if you really don't like Gmail.
I moved from Yahoo! to Gmail in December. In Gmail settings, there is an import tab where you can transfer all emails and contacts and it did just that with everything from my Yahoo! account. Once everything was imported, I deleted everything in the Yahoo! account. Super easy.
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I have Outlook and I really like the outlook.com interface AND I REALLY like the iOS Outlook app so I am going to go that route.

Glad your transition went smoothly :)
 
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WinstonRumfoord said:
Does anyone use yahoo for anything other than a "burner email" for when you HAVE to register an email?
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Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance are two of the best infornation services in their respective classes. I understand that for fantasy sports, Yahoo is also one of the leaders. Yahoo News is also pretty good.

I gave up using Yahoo Mail because of these security breaches, but it actually worked well and did not cap capacity (there was no e-mail storage limit). I believe it was the first e-mail service to support iOS push e-mail.

I also abandoned Flickr because of these recent security breaches but Flickr is a very capable cloud photo storage service. Unfortunately, it never took off as a social media platform. Much of that is Yahoo's fault; they decided to grossly limit the number of viewable photos unless the user upgraded to the Flickr Pro paid service. Yahoo eventually discontinued the pay model, but the damage was done and Flickr wasn't competing with any of the upstarts like Instagram.

I've never been an IM person, but Yahoo Messenger and AIM were best of breed. I understand many still use Yahoo IM.
 
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Is there any data left to be breached?

This feels like when there's a bad storm coming and everybody buys up all the milk, bread and eggs. Is there anything left on the shelves? Are there still shelves or have they been taken too?
 
Phil A. said:
I don't use Yahoo mail, but do have a Yahoo account thanks to being a Flickr user for many years. I nearly cancelled it after the last breach, but I think this time I'll actually follow through with it: I'll miss Flickr, but I think enough is enough!
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I used Yahoo for fantasy football (something I stopped doing) and instant messaging. My team at work had used Yahoo IM, but have since moved on to Skype for business.

What's funny is my yahoo account dates back from when GeoCities was a thing and then yahoo bought them.
 
No email is secure. Sending sensitive information via email that can come back to bite you if someone else reads it is foolish. So we all go over to Gmail & then they get hacked in a few years, then we all go over to Microsoft & they get hacked in a few years. Etc etc.

Might as well stay with Yahoo and know that you live in a glass house and compose your emails accordingly. Seems like the best plan to me.

Security on the Internet is an illusion.
 
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