Posted on 10/11/2017 5:48:34 PM PDT by Pollard
In September 2016, Yahoo revealed a hack that compromised 500 million user accounts. In December, the company revealed yet another hack, this time affecting a record 1 billion accounts. On Tuesday, Yahoo updated that number to all 3 billion accounts its services.
And yes, that includes yours.
The hack exposed names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, encrypted passwords and unencrypted security questions. Here's what you can do now to protect yourself.
Yahoo said it didn't suffer a new breach, but rather learned of 2 billion additional users having been affected in its 2013 incident. It's sent a notification to all its users, telling them that it had taken action in 2016 to protect all accounts, requiring password changes and blocking access from accounts with unencrypted security questions.
The information stolen in the massive breach did not include passwords in clear text, payment card data or bank account information. Yahoo is still working with law enforcement to determine who was behind the attack.
what do you if can’t remember your password?
So what can we do? I was hacked by FB years ago, Yahoo, thieved at home x2( not related except an organized crime group of thieves with a moving truck), injured at work my car thieved x3 and have nothing left to steal...what can we do with yahoo?
i rejoice that in heaven there will be no hackers and no thievery. I expect to be there fairly soon.
It’s a good thing that I use fake b-days, sec questions and multiple pws...
When I signed up for Yahoo back in 1998 everything I told them as fake.
Don’t rush off TOO SOON!!
At least the passwords were hashed, so they couldn’t actually access the accounts.
That’s my problem too. It’s been so long since I used it.
How many of those 3 billion accounts that were hacked were spambots sending out junk emails?
There’s no fakebook in Heaven either. Sounds like a wonderful place.
Why would Yahoo have credit card information?
I must be old fashioned, I expect them to have a customer service number, but of course Yahoo doesn’t have one.
Yup, that's what you need to do to protect yourself. I rarely give my real information. Only do it when it matters for official documents. For most Internet junk, cover yourself by faking your name, age, birthday, phone numbers and security questions. Try to be consistent, don't mess up by having five moms from different races.
Iv considered Yahoo an Malware website for years now, and always just assumed it was unsafe.
I don’t even look at Yahoo news stories. ( not that’s it’s actually possible with the endless pop up adds and god knows what all is going on there )
That’s like telling me my middle school records have been stolen. Next you will tell me my compuserv account was hacked.
I get REALLY ticked when they reject my January 1, 1900 birth date these days. I find January 1, 1920 still works.
I only used Yahoo for throw away accounts.
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