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Yahoo: 3 billion accounts breached in 2013. Yes, 3 billion
Associated Press ^ | Oct 3, 2017 6:34 PM EDT | Matt O’Brien

Posted on 10/03/2017 4:55:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Yahoo has tripled down on what was already the largest data breach in history, saying it affected all 3 billion accounts on its service, not the 1 billion it revealed late last year.

The company announced Tuesday that it’s providing notice to additional user accounts affected by the August 2013 data theft. […]

Following its acquisition by Verizon in June, Yahoo says, it obtained new intelligence while investigating the breach with help from outside forensic experts. It says the stolen customer information did not include passwords in clear text, payment card data or bank account information. …

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: chicoms; hackers; spambots; spammers; yahoo; yahoohacked

1 posted on 10/03/2017 4:55:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
I haven't noticed anything unusual at all. I mean doesn't everybody get 10 - 20 porn spam messages every day?

Changed all of my passwords after it happened, but they have my email.

2 posted on 10/03/2017 5:02:50 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Olog-hai

good thing they only got 3 billion


3 posted on 10/03/2017 5:03:14 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Olog-hai

How many spammers accounts were breached?


4 posted on 10/03/2017 5:09:59 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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“Following its acquisition by Verizon in June...” Yahoo could no longer hide the extent of the breach?
Well, they hid it 4 years- shows the power of a “technology company”.


5 posted on 10/03/2017 5:11:00 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Olog-hai

I knew mine was breached a long time ago when I started getting spam from myself.


6 posted on 10/03/2017 5:14:47 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: rfreedom4u

“I knew mine was breached a long time ago when I started getting spam from myself.”

were you trying to sell yourself “legal” Cialis WITHOUT a prescription, by any chance?


7 posted on 10/03/2017 5:26:44 PM PDT by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: rfreedom4u

I used to get that on AOL. Those were the days.


8 posted on 10/03/2017 5:26:58 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: rfreedom4u

Same here.


9 posted on 10/03/2017 5:40:42 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: rfreedom4u

oh wow! me, too! I just figured it was from unencrypted mail being read.


10 posted on 10/03/2017 6:32:20 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: Olog-hai

Just where is the failed Marissa Mayer’s CEO of Yahoo these days? Enjoying her half billion dollars and last I checked allowed to resign as apposed to rightfully being carried out on her caboose. No bigger Obamanite than her.


11 posted on 10/03/2017 8:18:34 PM PDT by DAC21
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And dumb verizon bought that lump (along with stupid AOL as well).


12 posted on 10/04/2017 7:42:20 AM PDT by Wuli
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Well, I hope they search through the billions to find out my personal information. What a waste of time that would be.:-)


13 posted on 10/05/2017 8:27:30 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a slasher, and find one.... what's your plan?)
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