09-22-2016, 01:03 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Ontario
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Yahoo warns users at least 500 million accounts were hacked
Posted here due to the magnitude of the breach.
Wow
https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-expe...hacked-report/
"Users who haven't changed their passwords since 2014 are highly encouraged to do so."
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Yahoo revealed that at least half a billion of its users were hacked from a 2014 leak.
The breach exposed up to 500 million accounts' names, email addresses, phone numbers, date of births, and in some cases, security questions and answers, the company said.
The internet pioneer said it's "working closely with law enforcement" on the breach, and believe that it was from a "state-sponsored actor," though it did not specify what country.
Yahoo is urging its users who haven't changed their passwords since 2014 to do so.
Verizon, which had purchased Yahoo for $4.83 billion in July, said it was notified of the massive breach within the last two days. The telecommunications giant said it had "limited information and understanding of the impact" in a statement.
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09-22-2016, 01:07 PM
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#2
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: east van
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My main surprise was that there are 500 million Yahoo users.
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09-22-2016, 01:09 PM
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#3
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Powerplay Quarterback
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My fantasy football teams!!! Nooooooooooo
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09-22-2016, 01:22 PM
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#4
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In the Sin Bin
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damn it. I use my Yahoo Fantasy League password on all my BS accounts.
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09-22-2016, 01:31 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: back in the 403
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Oh Jebus..just thought "Who uses Yahoo anymore?", then I remembered about my fantasy teams. And I haven't played fantasy since 2014 so I deff haven't changed my password since then. Yamma-hamma..
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09-22-2016, 02:04 PM
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#6
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Yeah...yahoo? Remind me to close down my hotmail account...
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09-22-2016, 02:21 PM
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#7
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Scoring Winger
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That sucks. I actually still have a yahoo email that I use for some stuff. Yes, I know Yahoo is dated but the email address still works like a current day email so I've never bothered to change it.
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09-22-2016, 02:23 PM
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#8
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
Yeah...yahoo? Remind me to close down my hotmail account...
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I love my hotmail account for all the things that need an "email address" to be entered in a contest, sign up for forums, etc. Gotta keep the real personal emails less cluttered. Plus the added nostalgia factor of it still being around since basically the start of the internet makes me check it now and again.
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09-22-2016, 03:12 PM
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#9
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In the Sin Bin
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spetch
I love my hotmail account for all the things that need an "email address" to be entered in a contest, sign up for forums, etc. Gotta keep the real personal emails less cluttered. Plus the added nostalgia factor of it still being around since basically the start of the internet makes me check it now and again.
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Do you get a bunch of:
lm ñ¤± stäriñg a± ýoû lm stär¡ñg a± ûr fr¡èñd has signed on...
notifications and everything?
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09-22-2016, 05:34 PM
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#11
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by polak
Do you get a bunch of:
lm ñ¤± stäriñg a± ýoû lm stär¡ñg a± ûr fr¡èñd has signed on...
notifications and everything?
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Surprisingly no (nothing much gets pass the junk email) However I could be a billionaire by now with all the money I've turned down
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09-22-2016, 08:51 PM
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#12
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiran403
That sucks. I actually still have a yahoo email that I use for some stuff. Yes, I know Yahoo is dated but the email address still works like a current day email so I've never bothered to change it.
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Haha. I've had my hotmail acct since before hotmail was a Microsoft product. Got a ridiculously good username with no numbers, dots, underscores or anything. I just keep it alive for nostalgia. It's gotta be coming on 20 years now. I've got emails going back to 2001 still in there. It's kinda neat reading old emails the odd time from old girlfriends and pals.
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09-23-2016, 04:06 AM
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#13
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Syracuse, NY
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3/4 of the way through 2016, they notify users of a breach that occurred in 2014.
Brilliant!
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09-23-2016, 05:41 AM
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#14
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Royal Oak
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pylon
Haha. I've had my hotmail acct since before hotmail was a Microsoft product. Got a ridiculously good username with no numbers, dots, underscores or anything. I just keep it alive for nostalgia. It's gotta be coming on 20 years now. I've got emails going back to 2001 still in there. It's kinda neat reading old emails the odd time from old girlfriends and pals.
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I'm the same way too. My Hotmail address is only 5 characters with no numbers or anything. It's also useful as an account for signing up for stupid websites and such.
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09-23-2016, 08:50 AM
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#15
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Franchise Player
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Does this impact Yahoo users who access yahoo via Facebook accounts\logins?
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09-23-2016, 09:41 AM
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#16
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Victoria, BC
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I think they're just trying to remind people to use their Yahoo accounts.
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09-23-2016, 01:14 PM
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#17
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
My main surprise was that there are 500 million Yahoo users.
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Flickr is either owned by or associated with Yahoo mail system. Number of Flickr users alone could be in hundreds or millions.
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09-23-2016, 03:22 PM
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#19
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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I think it was about that time that Yahoo forced me to update my password. Makes me wonder if they knew about this all along, and some reason didn't bother to tell people.
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