Yahoo Hack
Last night I found out there had been a huge hack of yahoo (apparently over 500 million accounts?) in 2014, which apparently they just found out about recently.
Supposedly yahoo has sent an email to anyone they think was caught in this hack —
However, it might be prudent to change your passwords.
Also, they suggest deleting your "security questions and answers" [those things like, "what was my first grade teacher's name"].
Poking around, I just found
Here's what you should know, and do, about the Yahoo breach
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which I've not yet looked at —
That pcworld article gives these links
An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
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An Important Message About Yahoo User Security By Bob Lord, CISO A recent investigation by Yahoo has confirmed that … |
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and
Account Security Issue FAQs | Account Help – SLN27925
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Account Security Issue FAQs | Account Help – SLN27925 If you've received an email notice or Yahoo Mail prompt regarding a Yah… |
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This will probably impact the sale of yahoo to Verison, in some way.
I have changed my passwords for my yahoo accounts, and have deleted the "security questions and answers" for the accounts.
It's probably a good idea to change passwords for your OTHER online accounts, at least for other email accounts.
When looking at the security section of ones yahoo account, you can look at the "profile" — for many of us, this dates back to 2000 or earlier. Anyhow, I don't know what this is like for more currently-started accounts, but although the profile has full name and birthdate, apparently you CANNOT delete that info! I was googling around, and saw a zillion outraged complaints about this, including some that confirmed that they'd managed to get through to yahoo (not easy) and that yahoo said, yep, you can't delete that info.
So — this makes it more imperative for us to move yahoo groups to the new (also free) platform, groups.io.