Posted on 09/22/2016 4:13:01 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach of its service, according to several sources close to the situation, hacking that has exposed several hundred million user accounts.
*snip* Earlier this summer, Yahoo said it was investigating a data breach in which hackers claimed to have access to 200 million user accounts and was selling them online. Its as bad as that, said one source. Worse, really.
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Ditto. And I have Communistcast
Selling them? I’ll let you have mine for ten cents and save the hacking.
Because most folks have cell phones.
I’m changing it to 12345678.
THAT will stop the hackers!!!
I changed mine to MyNewPassword. They’ll NEVER guess that one.
Brilliant!!!
Are you sure that was an email from Amazon? Yes, you sign in using your email address but the password would be the Amazon password, Amazon wouldnt have your email password.
Please read this as it sounds like what you described and could be a phishing scam although some people claim in the comments that it was legit.
Just to be on the safe side, never click on links embedded in an email even if it looks legit, always go to your bookmarked URL or type it in.
If you did click on any links, run a virus/malware scan then log into Amazon directly and change your password again.
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