[rarestia]

Yahoo recently released information on a breach that exposed over 1 billion accounts. You would be wise to change your password and update your security information.

[IronJack]

I’m not saying it’s Russians ...

But it’s Russians.

[posterchild]

It was one of the early web based email providers. I’ve kept an email acct there (while acquiring others elsewhere for different purposes) just so I have a long lived email address.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

OMG!!! The sky is falling!!

Falling slowly however since this happened in 2013.

[Dr. Pritchett]

Many people use the same exact username and password on many sites because it’s easy for them to remember. One trick that hackers and thieves use is to try using stolen names and passwords on all the common sites to see where they can get in. Often times, they are rewarded by a certain percentage of success.

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

Wolfie Blizzard reporting......

[smokingfrog]

Hackers obtained more than just names and passwords in the Yahoo breach — they also nabbed answers to security questions. Cybercriminals can use that info to conduct automated attacks called “credential stuffing.”

That’s when hackers take the stolen information of millions of users and build a program that tries to log in to other online accounts like banking, retail and airline rewards.

Yahoo is advising people to change the passwords and security answers on any other accounts for which they used the same or similar information as their Yahoo account.

[Terry Mross]

Yahoo is advising everyone to change their because Yahoo more than three years ago. Better late than never, I reckon

[AndyTheBear]

I have a yahoo email as my garbage dump...meaning I don’t check it and thus don’t mind if it gets spammed. That way I can sign up for things that demand a valid email without worrying about how many marketing lists I’m on. My real email for people I want to talk to us gmail.

[Zionist Conspirator]

So what else is new?

[Pollard]

And in other news; The DNC says they will start using yahoo for all their email needs in an effort to boost security

[4yearlurker]

Does anybody know any good alternatives to Yahoo email?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

People with Yahoo email accounts may have had their security compromised.

[ealgeone]

This is from a breach of data in 2013. Little too late now to do much about it.

[plain talk]

Somehow I have a yahoo account from long ago perhaps to use their music service. Anyway I got some phishing emails that were bogus. The emails were not that convincing. :-)

[trebb]

I stopped using my yahoo email years ago - kept it open as a “throwaway” for sites that require a valid email address.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

If Yahoo has been hacked, what good will it do to change your password now?

[DAC21]

Marissa Mayer’s toilet bowel legacy as Yahoo CEO, same as her Lord and Savior Barry O’ Bummer.

[Grampa Dave]

So did the Russians hijack Yahoo or did the CIA do it and blame it on the Russians?

This tidbit below is buried in the Muscular writeup by Wikipedia.

Operational details:

According to the leaked document the NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from internal Yahoo! and Google networks to data warehouses at the agency’s headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. The programme operates via an access point known as DS-200B, which is outside the United States, and it relies on an unnamed telecommunications operator to provide secret access for the NSA and the GCHQ.[3]

According to a post-it style note from the presentation, the exploitation relied on the fact that (at the time at least) data was transmitted unencrypted inside Google's private cloud, with "Google Front End Servers" stripping and respectively adding back SSL from/to external connections.

According to the Washington Post: "Two engineers with close ties to Google exploded in profanity when they saw the drawing." After the information about MUSCULAR was published by the press, Google announced that it was working on deploying encrypted communication between its datacenters.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program)