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BREAKING: Yahoo says hackers stole info in 500 million user accounts
WaPo ^ | 09-22-2016 | Staff

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 ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: google; hack; hackers; internet; windowspinglist; yahoo; yahoohacked
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To: Bulwyf

“They have 500 million users!? That’s incredibly shocking!”

yahoo subs out email services for att.net and others. at least up until now ...


61 posted on 09/22/2016 10:26:13 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: VanDeKoik

“My birthday has always been Jan 1, 19(random number).”

Ditto. I just make sure the year makes me old enough to look at porn ... It’s truly amazing the number of babies born on new year’s day ...


62 posted on 09/22/2016 10:28:37 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: dayglored; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; ...
If you use Yahoo! Change your passwords on your email accounts and access. They done got hacked! — PING!


Yahoo! No security!
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63 posted on 09/23/2016 1:45:22 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker
I don't do the yahoo. Never did.

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Paris (Ooh La La) + Medicine

64 posted on 09/23/2016 2:18:31 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: NRx

Why worry? Google, Facebook, and Apple have personal information on billions of people and they sell it, without owner permission, and make billions. There should be claims against every one of these entities for breaching personal privacy rights.


65 posted on 09/23/2016 4:55:31 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarm)
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To: NRx

the Fedgov hacking us and giving our identities to illegals and “refugees”?


66 posted on 09/23/2016 5:02:03 AM PDT by uncitizen (JFK: The first victim of the New World Order)
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To: Pearls Before Swine; TexasGator

IRS has all your personal information. Their agents often covertly sell it to other criminals on the outside. This is part of why several million fraudulent returns are filed every year. Someone filed one in my name 2 years ago and it is still an open case.


67 posted on 09/23/2016 5:02:19 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarm)
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To: Neoliberalnot

I didn’t know that agents sold data very often, although it stands to reason that every potential corruption vacuum will be filled.

What I have heard is that the IRS is very slow—some would say deliberately slow—to help in cases of clear identity theft. Some say that “comes from the top” as many thefts of SSN numbers are a convenience to illegals who need to have a fake one to work. Screw the law-abiding citizen.


68 posted on 09/23/2016 5:10:04 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: sailor76
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Feel The Pride Of Owning An Email Address With Ronald Reagan's Name. Get It Now! Prevent Email Scanning · Secure · Anonymous · Private

69 posted on 09/23/2016 5:12:59 AM PDT by jurroppi1 (The only thing you "pass to see what's in it" is a stool sample. h/t MrB)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

More than 30% of their employees are Africans. More than 2 million fraudulent returns filed in 2014 alone, the same year I was ripped off. They have not allowed me to file a return since then and I paid more than $50,000 in federal income tax in 2015, but no returned allowed means I didn’t get credit.


70 posted on 09/23/2016 7:37:15 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarm)
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To: NRx

The irony is that most of the “people” that they hacked are email addresses used to email spam.


71 posted on 09/23/2016 7:57:19 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Neoliberalnot
More than 30% of their employees are Africans. More than 2 million fraudulent returns filed in 2014 alone, the same year I was ripped off. They have not allowed me to file a return since then and I paid more than $50,000 in federal income tax in 2015, but no returned allowed means I didn’t get credit.

Two comments:

1) Government is a sinkhole for affirmative action. Combine it with civil service protections, the SEIU unionization of government, and the increasing power of government, and we have a new ruling class built up from our former minorities. Perverse.

2)When you say they don't let you file a return, how do you pay taxes, whether the withheld from salary type, or the estimated type, to comply with the law?

72 posted on 09/23/2016 8:35:02 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: oh8eleven

Well .. LifeLock stops all intrusions; along with Norton, I don’t have issues.


73 posted on 09/23/2016 10:39:37 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: CyberAnt
LifeLock stops all intrusions
I wouldn't bet on that. Otherwise, why would they make this claim ...Norton is an anti-virus, not an anti- ID-theft program ... and like any AV program, doesn't guarantee anything.
You covered your bases as best you can, but there's always a chance "things" will happen.
74 posted on 09/23/2016 11:31:50 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

Well, the claim is only valid if they DON’T HAVE TO FULFILL IT .. BECAUSE THEIR PROGRAM KEPT THE USER SAFE.

You’re not required to use them .. it doesn’t matter to me.

And .. Norton tells me if somebody tried to launch a “Trojan” onto my system .. and it says who tried to do it.

Well, I’ve never had Trojans, malware, etc. .. but you can do whatever you want.

Oh yeah, LifeLock already told me about a try several months ago.

I don’t care what other people do. I’ll stick with what works for me; of course, I don’t go to weird places; or use otherwise suspicious websites .. that may have a lot to do with it.


75 posted on 09/23/2016 11:54:07 AM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Payroll taxes are auto removed and we are told me must file quarterly estimates just as before for my wife and my side business. I have always had a side business outside my 50 hour regular job in higher education, a shithole of PC intolerance and deceptions.


76 posted on 09/23/2016 5:40:08 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarm)
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To: NRx

OK - what’s going on? Not the hacking part - but the Verizon plan to buy Yahoo!? I thought AT&T + Yahoo! were already partners...

But as to the claim of “state-sponsored hackers” - My first assumption would be the US Federal Government would be the “state sponsor”...


77 posted on 09/24/2016 9:45:33 AM PDT by TheBattman (A member over 15 years, yet my posts are "submitted for review" and no freepmail...)
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To: NRx

Nah.... its the Obama justice department...


78 posted on 09/24/2016 9:46:19 AM PDT by TheBattman (A member over 15 years, yet my posts are "submitted for review" and no freepmail...)
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To: catnipman

Im usually born on christmas of a random year


79 posted on 09/24/2016 6:03:46 PM PDT by Diplomat
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To: Diplomat

“Im usually born on christmas of a random year”

April 1, 19xx is another excellent birthday.


80 posted on 09/24/2016 7:45:53 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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