Yahoo Hacked: 1 billion email accounts compromised

#1

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/yahoo-discloses-hack-of-1-billion-accounts/

Woke up this morning (local) to be hit with this wonderful news on the telly, which apparently is believed due to a state sponsored cyber attack and as an account holder since 2003, I’m now faced with the delightful task of trawling through my inbox sorting personal data that potentially could be up sh*tcreek…

BUT and here’s the thing I find not a little frustrating, the breach occurred in AUGUST 2013! however this excerpt via the above link provides in stark clarity the “reasoning” behind Yahoo’s belated disclosure:

Verizon agreed to buy Yahoo in July for $4.83 billion, and Yahoo’s security incidents have led to speculation that Verizon might ask for a $1 billion discount on the company. “As we’ve said all along, we will evaluate the situation as Yahoo continues its investigation,” a Verizon spokesperson said today. “We will review the impact of this new development before reaching any final conclusions.”

…well indeed Merry Christmas Yahoo.

#2

The lesson here is the same as the one for the last major hack. Stop…using…Yahoo. See how simple that sounds, Planet Earth? :stuck_out_tongue:

This is literally why I don’t use this freebie e-mail stuff for anything critical, opting to use my web site’s e-mail instead. Not saying that this is a bulletproof option, but it certainly can’t be much worse than the alternative. Yahoo has proven time and again that they cannot be trusted with security.

And, yeah, copping to the breach long after the fact shows a serious lack of integrity and customer loyalty.

#3

Yes indeedy a painful lesson finally learnt :banghead:

Although I have to say that in my ‘defence’ as a creature of habit, certain traits built up over a lifetime can be extremely challenging too divest oneself of. Oh well, on a positive note it’s a kick in the butt for me to finally start building a personal website I’ve procrastinated about over the last couple of years.

Cheers.

#4

Yeah. My website itself is kind of an unkempt mess atm. It’s less of an issue of procrastination for me and one of time. I would just need to block out the time, redesign, and re-code that bad boy. The “when” is always the tricky part though. sigh

So, for now, it just kinda sits and rots there like some internet ghetto. Its core purpose atm is to host my e-mail. In use or not, I won’t ever give up my domain name. I did that once with a .com of my full name. Huge mistake. I haven’t been able to get it back since. Enough people have the same name as me that, apparently, we’re all always fighting over the same URLs. :stuck_out_tongue:

As far as being a creature of habit goes, I can empathize. I’ve got a gmail account and can’t bear to part with it. Its become a bit spammy these days, but I can’t ditch it. I’ve got way too many products, services, and licenses tied to it. So, instead of looking for ways to migrate all of that stuff over, I stick with the devil I’ve known for the past 10 years.

#5

So glad i killed all my Yahoo related accounts couple months back.

#6

All the stuff that was hacked is hardly secure anyway. I mean isn’t Yahoo one of those companies that rolled over and gave everyones data to the NSA? :wink:

#7

Yep, and then some…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_(2013–present)

#8

When dealing with the internet i always think of the mindset of a Samurai.

Do not put things on the internet you heart is attached to and you cannot forget in the space of seven breaths.

:deal:

#9

I have two yahoo accounts and for the life of me I cannot remember either of them, they never got used and I cannot remember why I made either of them…

Oh yea, the first one was from more than ten years ago because me and my friend were complete morons and had no idea how emails worked. He had yahoo and I had hotmail and we thought we needed an account with the same company in order to send emails to each other as neither of us could send an email to the other. This could have been solved if we had bothered to write each other’s overly complicated emails down instead of sharing them phonetically.

Sigh, the ignorance of youth.

The second one was for work related reasons, I think, but cannot be sure. All I know is that I created it with a unique password then never touched it again.

So long yahoo, I never knew you.

#10

I hope Gmail is a safer place…