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TECH YAHOO HACK Yahoo Has Been Hacked: What You Need to Know by Jeff John Roberts @jeffjohnroberts SEPTEMBER 22, 2016, 5:57 PM EDT Photograph by Getty Images It’s time to change your password. It’s a cyber catastrophe. Yahoo on Thursday confirmed a massive security breach that saw hackers steal personal information for over 500 million accounts. Yahoo YHOO -0.53% says a foreign government is to blame. The incident is a big deal, since so many have a Yahoo account of some type or other — for email or finance or fantasy sports and so on. The fallout will have major...

Oh dear! About that high-level email hackery that Hillary - and every talking head with a “Democrat analyst” after their name - have been blaming on the Russians? Apparently John Podesta committed his own “high level hack” by falling for the oldest trick in the Internet virtual book: a simple phishing scam. That’s right, he gave the “hackers” his password (h/t: Larwyn’s Linx): According to these reports, Podesta actually clicked the "Change Password" link on "com-securitysettingpage.tk" and gave these scammers his password. This is "grandma's first day on the internet" level idiocy. Imagine how safe we’ll be with Grandma is...

Ouch. This one hurts, personally. Our circle of right-leaning bloggers is a tight-knit group and we rely on each other for help, both with stories and with spreading the word. That trust was recently violated by one of our own. Former British Conservative MP and co-founder of the conservative website Heat Street, Louise Mensch, was revealed by the WikiLeaks hack as a secret supporter of Hillary Clinton. In an email to Clinton crony Michael Kives (which was then forwarded to Clinton’s right-hand man John Podesta), Mensch advises the Clinton team on how to better portray their candidate to the nation.

The story of the Sarah Palin email hack has taken a new turn. According to security experts, the hackers have been traced to Barack Obama’s hometown of Chicago. His national headquarters is located there.