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Yahoo Warns Users of Third Data Breach As Verizon Closes in on Revised Deal
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Eventually we'll get to a point where if every MR member puts in a dollar, we'll be able to buy Yahoo
The method I used was to sign up for another IMAP based e-mail service and copy the messages over from Yahoo Mail to the new service. I don't know if it's the "best" but it worked with relatively little fussing around. Admittedly, I didn't have many messages in my Yahoo account. I am a strong proponent of deleting messages for personal e-mail.
As for competing services, I knew of a few services and did an Internet search to see if there were any more.
I understand that Outlook.com now supports IMAP. That's one option. I have a longtime Hotmail account that I use for garbage mail (signing up for contests, etc.) so I opted not to use any of the Microsoft e-mail domains (hotmail.com, live.com, outlook.com) for my primary account.
GMX is a German based Internet services company, they run Mail.com. They also have IMAP e-mail. I am a longtime user of the Mail.com service for secondary mail that I don't want clogging my primary account like newsletters. My mobile devices like iPhone and iPad only have my primary e-mail account set up. My two Macs have the secondary Mail.com account also configured. That way, my phone only gets the really important messages
I've also used smaller services like Zoho (which is really a small business cloud services company, but they offer free e-mail) and Inbox.com. I'm more wary of these since I'm not convinced that they can filter spam as well as the big boys plus some of the smaller services could fold at any time with little warning.
That leads us to one old school player: AOL. Yes, I switched my primary IMAP e-mail to them. AOL mail is very reliable their spam filtering is adequate and they support push e-mail.
If you don't like any of the options I listed, please use a search engine to find additional providers.
I do recommend that you test a new service first for a while before transferring your existing mail to the new provider.
Best of luck.
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
Lots of spam originates from Outlook accounts, according to the headers / Raw Message.
Then you need to notify the people with whom you do business that your NEW email account is XYZ@geewhiz.
And that is why I never answer security questions with real answers. All fake, and all dutifully recorded in 1Password. Now I'm going to go visit my uncle, Abe Lincoln, who was born in 1753, in Novosibirsk.
I used to use Yahoo as my contest and required email account, when I didn't really give a flip about getting information from the company but a valid email was required. Now I use one of the one time email services, or I think about how much I really need to access that site if they require an email. More and more I don't think that the service is worth the risks or intrusion.
I would love to do this but they won't let me. I had a Yahoo account when they handled AT&T's DSL customer accounts years ago. I haven't been a customer forever but the e-mail address exists, and I had it forwarded to my newer account. Every once in a while it gets hacked and it starts sending spam to random people, many of whom feel the need to reply. To this day I receive those replies via the forward.
I've contacted Yahoo, but they say AT&T must shut down the account. I've contacted AT&T and they tell me to contact Yahoo because I'm no longer their customer. :-(
THIS. Why do Verizon even want to continue going ahead with this. What makes them think this won't continue after purchasing Yahell this won't continue?
I keep wondering if the reason to buy it is somehow related to the fact that assorted ISPs use email hosted by Yahoo. So if Verizon bought Yahoo,,,, does that somehow enable Verizon to pick up the email addresses for any purpose other than continuing the provision of email service to ISPs Yahoo was servicing? Frontier Communications is one of those ISPs. Whatever you want to think about Frontier, that's a lot of email addresses since Frontier has zillions of rural dialup and DSL accounts. If Verizon can market to those addresses, or rent them to third parties, that's a chunk of dough.
I just got a reminder to please stop using a convenient Email app because it not as secure as logging in via a web browser.
Please use Yahoo's Mail apps on your phone.... Yeah, you don't HAVE a Yahoo email app for Microsoft's phone! So I should try and access that from my phone on a web page? No thanks. The screen isn't designed for that.
Also, I don't want to do email from a web page on my Mac. I want a REAL Email app to handle all of my email accounts so I don't have to play login games all over the flipping Internet! It amazes me they don't GET that and create a more secure login protocol that email programs can use. Telling someone to use a web page is not an ideal solution, IMO.
Please use Yahoo's Mail apps on your phone.... Yeah, you don't HAVE a Yahoo email app for Microsoft's phone! So I should try and access that from my phone on a web page? No thanks. The screen isn't designed for that.
Also, I don't want to do email from a web page on my Mac. I want a REAL Email app to handle all of my email accounts so I don't have to play login games all over the flipping Internet! It amazes me they don't GET that and create a more secure login protocol that email programs can use. Telling someone to use a web page is not an ideal solution, IMO.
Maybe they'll ditch the core after they soak up what they went there for. Anyway there's a price cut now.
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Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) confirm that they have agreed to a $350M cut in the price that Verizon will pay to swallow up Yahoo.
The two companues also agree to share certain costs associated with the massive data breach at Yahoo.
The $4.48B deal is expected to close in Q2.
http://seekingalpha.com/news/3244732-verizon-yahoo-agree-amended-merger-terms
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Verizon's after all that Alibaba stock Yahoo owns and the Yahoo Japan stuff, plus there’s cash; the core Yahoo US can hardly be what the deal is really about, it just comes with the turf (and.. the data breaches?).
Still, this might not be the end of the forecasts of how this adventure winds up. Funny how our grandparents thought telephone companies were such staid 'n' stodgy creatures.
Full disclosure: I have zero in any part of this gig and certainly not from thinking I'd hedged it right.
Wrong. Verizon won't get any Asian equity.
What Verizon is purchasing from Yahoo is Yahoo's primary Internet assets, basically the stuff you read/use when you visit www.yahoo.com (News, Sports, Finance, Flickr).
Yahoo Inc. will transform into Altbaba Inc. which will essentially be a holding company for its Asian assets (Alibaba and Yahoo Japan) and will deal with any shareholder suits arising from the renegotiated Verizon-Yahoo acquisition's lower sales price (about $0.37 per share).
Costs from hack-related litigation and government probes will be equally split between Verizon and Altbaba.
Here's an Associated Press article on today's developments but Verizon knew from the beginning that it wasn't going to get an Asian equity.
That was part of Yahoo's conundrum in selling itself to prospective buyers, many YHOO shareholders value the Asian equity assets more than the Internet operations. The value of the equity assets would suffer from dilution if they were part of the sale.
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I stand corrected, and thank you... but then revert to being mystified how Verizon is willing to pay so much for it despite that reduction. LOL back to my idle speculation it will rent out mailing lists of yahoo-hosted email addressses from their client ISPs... for marketers to pitch more spam at the planet.
Verizon is trying to become a player in Internet advertising where Google and Facebook dominate. The AOL and Yahoo acquisitions help them get closer.
But surely the AOL acquisition was because of rumors of an enormous secret warehouse somewhere, still full of brand new, pristine, unsent, AOL CD's. Just think for a moment how much that could be worth!
yeah... gee I still use a couple every year in my garden, reflecting sunlight while dangling off scarecrow's arms to help keep birds away until after the beans have sprouted and got tall enough to defend themselves.I don't want to politicize the thread so I'll skip some things that have popped into my head about the future of ad revenue in an economy that may be migrating away from retail consumption as the bus driver. I wish social media and their hapless ad revenue sources good luck with the fantasies, though.
We're doubtless in some kind of spiralling "better mousetrap" sequence, but it may not be spiralling in the right direction for the marketers, that's all. When you don't have what it takes to spend money, or you don't care about spending money on a lot of fairly cheap stuff, the margins of a lot of retailers may start looking a lot more like those of supermarkets. What they do with their ad budgets is run weekly flyers on recycled paper...
Another disclaimer: No holdings in supermarkets... but I do shop their sales.
They might even have floppies lying around, and those are even more "vintage" and could be worth more!
Yet another 32 million affected by yet another breach:
https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/01/yahoo-hack-2017-data-breach/