Anyone have yahoo account???

[Kat]

Yahoo hack: Yahoo says hackers stole data from more than 1 billion user accounts



Time to dump anything that has to do with Yahoo. That includes Fantasy Football.......anything. Not trustworthy...


cnet suggests deleting all Yahoo.

I deleted my Yahoo account years ago.

Smarty Pants!

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

Kat, according the the info you provided, this issue is already 3 yrs old...
So, really, what's the point of deleting your account?
What information does your Yahoo account contain,
that you don't want someone to be privy to,
that they don't already have if they want it,
and can get regardless, if they wanted to... Yahoo or not?

Yes, I know. But, things are just now coming out from it. Plus there was a big hack on them not too terribly long ago. BUT I started thinking........1 Billion??? um how many people are there in the world, and how many have computers let alone Yahoo.

 

[waltky]

U.S. senator seeks probe of Yahoo security after massive hack revealed...

Yahoo under scrutiny after latest hack, Verizon seeks new deal terms
December 15, 2016 - Yahoo Inc came under renewed scrutiny by federal investigators and lawmakers on Thursday after disclosing the largest known data breach in history, prompting Verizon Communications Inc to demand better terms for its planned purchase of Yahoo's internet business.

Shares of the Sunnyvale, California-based internet pioneer fell more than 6 percent after it announced the breach of data belonging to more than 1 billion users late on Wednesday, following another large hack reported in September. Verizon, which agreed to buy Yahoo's core internet business in July for $4.8 billion, is now trying to persuade Yahoo to amend the terms of the acquisition agreement to reflect the economic damage from the two hacks, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.S. No. 1 wireless carrier still expects to go through with the deal, but is looking for “major concessions” in light of the most recent breach, according to another person familiar with the situation.

Asked about the status of the deal, a Yahoo spokesperson said: "We are confident in Yahoo’s value and we continue to work towards integration with Verizon." Verizon had already said in October it was reviewing the deal after September's breach disclosure. Late on Wednesday, it said it would "review the impact of this new development before reaching any final conclusions" about whether to proceed. The company declined to comment beyond that statement on Thursday.

Verizon has threatened to go to court to get out of the deal if it is not repriced, citing a material adverse effect, said the people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are confidential. No court in Delaware, where Yahoo is incorporated, has ever found that a material adverse effect has occurred that would allow companies to terminate a merger agreement. Nevertheless, the threat of a court case on the issue has been successfully used by companies to renegotiate deals, and experts said that some concessions from Yahoo are likely, given the magnitude of the cyber security breaches.

Renegotiating the deal’s price tag would be the simplest but also least likely scenario because the impact of the data breaches will not be apparent for some time, according to Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. A more likely concession would be for Yahoo to agree to compensate Verizon after the close of the deal, based on the liabilities that occur. The two companies may also agree to extend the close of the deal to allow for more time for information to come in on the impact of the breaches, Gordon suggested. Verizon shares rose 0.4 percent to close at $51.81, in line with the S&P 500 Index <.SPX>. Yahoo closed down 6.1 percent at $38.41.

BIGGEST BREACH

 

[Kat]

Well darn. I didn't see this until now. I posted similar in Computers.


ETA: I see it was merged. Thanks!

 

[charwin95]

I use my yahoo account for junk - anytime I'm required to provide my email for something.

I did the same but I use my hotmail email for junk like eBay or other stuff I buy on line.

 

[koshergrl]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company’s own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history.

The digital heist disclosed Wednesday occurred in August 2013, more than a year before a separate hack that Yahoo announced nearly three months ago. That breach affected at least 500 million users, which had been the most far-reaching hack until the latest revelation.

Yahoo hack: Yahoo says hackers stole data from more than 1 billion user accounts



Time to dump anything that has to do with Yahoo. That includes Fantasy Football.......anything. Not trustworthy...


cnet suggests deleting all Yahoo.

I deleted my Yahoo account years ago.

Smarty Pants!

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

Yahoo won't let me close my account. I tried to close it probably a year or two ago..and it's still there. I can't get into it, I don't remember the password, and I don't use it anymore..

But it's still there.

 

[Kat]

Yahoo hack: Yahoo says hackers stole data from more than 1 billion user accounts



Time to dump anything that has to do with Yahoo. That includes Fantasy Football.......anything. Not trustworthy...


cnet suggests deleting all Yahoo.

I deleted my Yahoo account years ago.

Smarty Pants!

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

Yahoo won't let me close my account. I tried to close it probably a year or two ago..and it's still there. I can't get into it, I don't remember the password, and I don't use it anymore..

But it's still there.

I saw an article telling how to close it. I am to the point where I hate Yahoo. If I ever use them as a search engine I ALWAYS end up with porn. Disgusting.

 

[Ringel05]

I deleted my Yahoo account years ago.

Smarty Pants!

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

Yahoo won't let me close my account. I tried to close it probably a year or two ago..and it's still there. I can't get into it, I don't remember the password, and I don't use it anymore..

But it's still there.

I saw an article telling how to close it. I am to the point where I hate Yahoo. If I ever use them as a search engine I ALWAYS end up with porn. Disgusting.

Maybe I should switch to Yahoo search..........

 

[Ringel05]

I deleted my Yahoo account years ago.

Smarty Pants!

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

Yahoo won't let me close my account. I tried to close it probably a year or two ago..and it's still there. I can't get into it, I don't remember the password, and I don't use it anymore..

But it's still there.

I saw an article telling how to close it. I am to the point where I hate Yahoo. If I ever use them as a search engine I ALWAYS end up with porn. Disgusting.

I had to call Yahoo support.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

There are Democrats in the intelligence community freaked that their email accounts may have been compromised.

 

[Kat]

Smarty Pants!

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

Yahoo won't let me close my account. I tried to close it probably a year or two ago..and it's still there. I can't get into it, I don't remember the password, and I don't use it anymore..

But it's still there.

I saw an article telling how to close it. I am to the point where I hate Yahoo. If I ever use them as a search engine I ALWAYS end up with porn. Disgusting.

Maybe I should switch to Yahoo search..........

ewwwwww nooooo

 

[keepitreal]

I deleted my Yahoo account years ago.

Smarty Pants!

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

Kat, according the the info you provided, this issue is already 3 yrs old...
So, really, what's the point of deleting your account?
What information does your Yahoo account contain,
that you don't want someone to be privy to,
that they don't already have if they want it,
and can get regardless, if they wanted to... Yahoo or not?

Yes, I know. But, things are just now coming out from it. Plus there was a big hack on them not too terribly long ago. BUT I started thinking........1 Billion??? um how many people are there in the world, and how many have computers let alone Yahoo.

Yes, I know. But, things are just now coming out from it. Plus there was a big hack on them not too terribly long ago. BUT I started thinking........1 Billion??? um how many people are there in the world, and how many have computers let alone Yahoo.

I'm sure there's plenty of successful hackings we don't hear about...
I'm a believer that the majority of hackings are inside jobs.

The 1 billion users....I've created multiple aliases for email addys.
My msn.com is used discretionally....
The rest I use for signing up at websites, like here, stuff like that....

 

[charwin95]

There are 2 threads of the same topic running simultaneously.

 

[charwin95]

I deleted my Yahoo account years ago.

Smarty Pants!

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

Yahoo won't let me close my account. I tried to close it probably a year or two ago..and it's still there. I can't get into it, I don't remember the password, and I don't use it anymore..

But it's still there.

I saw an article telling how to close it. I am to the point where I hate Yahoo. If I ever use them as a search engine I ALWAYS end up with porn. Disgusting.

Why do you use yahoo as your search engine? Google is the best as far as I know. MSN (bing) is as lousy as yahoo search.

 

[Montrovant]

Smarty Pants!

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

Yahoo won't let me close my account. I tried to close it probably a year or two ago..and it's still there. I can't get into it, I don't remember the password, and I don't use it anymore..

But it's still there.

I saw an article telling how to close it. I am to the point where I hate Yahoo. If I ever use them as a search engine I ALWAYS end up with porn. Disgusting.

Why do you use yahoo as your search engine? Google is the best as far as I know. MSN (bing) is as lousy as yahoo search.

Except for a very occasional google use, I don't use any of those.

 

[koshergrl]

I used duckduckgo.com as my search engine. They don't TRACK you or share your information.

 

[Montrovant]

I used duckduckgo.com as my search engine. They don't TRACK you or share your information.

Same for me. I believe Ringel is the one who turned me on to that search engine; if not him, I know it was someone on this site.

 

[blackhawk]

Nope. Has the left blamed Trump and Russia for the hack yet?

 

[charwin95]

I have had my Yahoo email for a million years. I don't think it's hacked, but I can't chance it.

Yahoo won't let me close my account. I tried to close it probably a year or two ago..and it's still there. I can't get into it, I don't remember the password, and I don't use it anymore..

But it's still there.

I saw an article telling how to close it. I am to the point where I hate Yahoo. If I ever use them as a search engine I ALWAYS end up with porn. Disgusting.

Why do you use yahoo as your search engine? Google is the best as far as I know. MSN (bing) is as lousy as yahoo search.

Except for a very occasional google use, I don't use any of those.

Yahoo and Bing are not updated regularly. I prove that myself several times. From the what I heard ( just a rumor) they steal information from google to save time and money.
If you sign up to open an account with google with their email gmail...... they can track you and sell your information. But you don't need to open a google account for research.
Your can also go to your setting look for Google, look for ALLOW LOCATION then click NEVER.

 

[waltky]

Yahoo security too little, too late...

Yahoo security problems a story of too little, too late
Sun Dec 18, 2016 | In the summer of 2013, Yahoo Inc launched a project to better secure the passwords of its customers, abandoning the use of a discredited technology for encrypting data known as MD5.

It was too late. In August of that year, hackers got hold of more than a billion Yahoo accounts, stealing the poorly encrypted passwords and other information in the biggest data breach on record. Yahoo only recently uncovered the hack and disclosed it last week. The timing of the attack might seem like bad luck, but the weakness of MD5 had been known by hackers and security experts for more than a decade. MD5 can be cracked more easily than other so-called "hashing" algorithms, which are mathematical functions that convert data into seemingly random character strings. In 2008, five years before Yahoo took action, Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute issued a public warning to security professionals through a U.S. government-funded vulnerability alert system: MD5 "should be considered cryptographically broken and unsuitable for further use."

A photo illustration shows a Yahoo logo on a smartphone in front of a displayed cyber code and keyboard​

Yahoo's failure to move away from MD5 in a timely fashion was an example of problems in Yahoo's security operations as it grappled with business challenges, according to five former employees and some outside security experts. Stronger hashing technology would have made it more difficult for the hackers to get into customer accounts after breaching Yahoo's network, making the attack far less damaging, they said. "MD5 was considered dead long before 2013," said David Kennedy, chief executive of cyber firm TrustedSec LLC. "Most companies were using more secure hashing algorithms by then." He did not name specific firms. Yahoo, which has confirmed it was still using MD5 at the time of the attack, disputed the notion that the company had skimped on security. "Over the course of our more than 20-year history, Yahoo has focused on and invested in security programs and talent to protect our users," Yahoo said in a statement to Reuters. "We have invested more than $250 million in security initiatives across the company since 2012."

COMPETING PRIORITIES

The former Yahoo security staffers, however, told Reuters the security team was at times turned down when it requested new tools and features such as strengthened cryptography protections, on the grounds that the requests would cost too much money, were too complicated, or were simply too low a priority. Partly, that reflected the internet pioneer's long-running financial struggles: Yahoo's revenues and profits have fallen steadily since their 2008 peak while Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc and others have come to dominate the consumer internet business. "When business is good, it's easy to do things like security," said Jeremiah Grossman, who worked on Yahoo's security team from 1999 to 2001. "When business is bad, you expect to see security get cut." To be sure, no system is completely hack-proof. Hackers have managed to break into passwords that were encrypted using more advanced technologies than MD5. Other Internet companies, such as LinkedIn and AOL, have also suffered security breaches, though none nearly as large as Yahoo's. "This could happen to any large corporation," said Tom Kellermann, a former World Bank security manager and security industry executive.

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[waltky]

Dey prob'ly the ones dat wiretapped the Donald...

Russian hackers face charges over massive Yahoo data breach
Thursday 16th March, 2017 - The United States has announced charges against two Russian security services officers and two alleged hackers, accusing them of a mega data breach at Yahoo that affected at least a half billion user accounts.

Officials said the hack targeted the email accounts of Russian and US officials, Russian journalists, employees of financial services and other businesses. The charges arise from a compromise of Yahoo user accounts that began at least as early as 2014. Though the Justice Department has previously charged Russian hackers with cybercrime - as well as hackers sponsored by the Chinese and Iranian governments - this is the first criminal case brought against Russian government officials.

Two of those facing charges are understood to be Russian FSB agents​

The announcement comes as federal authorities investigate Russian interference through hacking in the 2016 presidential election. Yahoo did not disclose the 2014 breach until last September when it began notifying at least 500 million users that their email addresses, birth dates, answers to security questions and other personal information may have been stolen. Three months later, Yahoo revealed it had uncovered a separate hack in 2013 affecting about one billion accounts, including some that were also hit in 2014.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord said: "We will not allow individuals, groups, nation states or a combination of them to compromise the privacy of our citizens, the economic interests of our companies, or the security of our country." In a statement, Chris Madsen, Yahoo's assistant general counsel and head of global security, thanked law enforcement agencies for their work. "We're committed to keeping our users and our platforms secure and will continue to engage with law enforcement to combat cybercrime," he said.

Russian security officers charged over massive Yahoo data breach - Independent.ie