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Posted on 09/22/2016 12:23:12 PM PDT by NRx
The stolen data includes users’ names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, passwords and security questions for verifying an account holder’s identity. This is a developing story. It will be updated.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
That should result in some criminal and civil consequences. When did they know, when did they disclose, etc.? Bet they run afoul SEC and corporate disclosures, etc. Yes, pathetic.
You don’t have email?
How did you get on FR?
The Guardian doesn’t have a clue - they are just stirring the pot.
AT & T UVerse uses Yahoo as a mail server, so I might have been hacked. Good, maybe now they can clean out my SPAM. That’s about all I ever get on that email account.
They have 500 million users!? That’s incredibly shocking!
Of course I have email. But I haven’t shared some of my personal identifying information with Yahoo or Google—the good stuff, that was mentioned in the first sentence of the article, like all passwords and (especially) social security numbers and birthdates.
ROFL!!!! probably many OLD ones like my wife’s.
1password is what I use. Unique password is generated for each site.
wife not old!!!! just been using yahoo for a long time!!!
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My wife had a Yahoo Email account for over 10 years. About a week ago she started getting a boat load of emails from “empowr.com.” We both have no idea who the hell they are.I put them on the blocked list,reported as Spam and the emails just kept coming. About 3 days ago we closed out the account. We needs all the crap.
My birthday has always been Jan 1, 19(random number).
Anyone that gives their SS number to anything on the internet is just asking for it.
Then you have shared that same data to your provider ...
The Russians did it.
Using Yahoo for your email is asking to be hacked. Has happened many times before.
At least once a week I get a spam email from friends that use Yahoo. It’s obvious their account has been hacked.
Who uses their real info when setting up these accounts?
Ok...how do you do it?
Now, it is true that my credit card co, and my phone co, and my cable provider have some of that, but I spread it around. Some swrvices, particularly wallet eervices, ask for more. I doubt that every yahoo customer is at major risk, but some are. We all are, depending on what gets hacked. What’s your point?
Yahoo News is the largest web news site, and the most liberal.
Not sure, but my cat will now have to change all her credit cards.
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I got an account but don’t use it much. I don’t have any contacts in it and it gets mostly spam. Maybe it’s time to delete it huh?
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