Well whoever hacked the accounts should send me my password. I forgot it, because like a normal person I haven't used Yahoo in 15 years.
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Yea, I haven't been able to get into my Yahoo account in years either.
At some point Yahoo started asking for all sorts of additional info, and there was a button to skip that. Eventually the ability to skip that went away, and I couldn't enter anymore because I refused to give them my phone number and address. And now, it just wont accept any password that I remember using at all.
Would be interesting to be able to get in it again just to go down memory lane (and delete any important financial or accounts info that might still be in there).
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ive never given them that info - merely a secondary email they send a verification code to. can still access the slew of spam in my yahoo inbox.
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I just use it for my gmail backup now. I should probably switch my amazon over to my gmail account too.
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Of course many people probably reuse the same passwords on multiple sites, which is bad, but exposing the "security questions" can be worse than losing the password. Now every site which asks you the same kind of question is at risk, even if you used a different password for all of them.
The "security questions" are usually really bad anyway, especially if they ask information that could be known by someone else (where were you born? where did you go to school? what is your pet's name?) or easily guessed by stalking on social media (what's your favorite color? what's your favorite sports team?).
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Yep, security questions that ask for real-world information about yourself are a really strange way of making your account more secure. I had to invent some fake answers back when those questions were ubiquitous. Unfortunately, I couldn't avoid reusing some of those answers on different websites.
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I used to generate passwords in keypass and use that for my security answers. Where did you go to high school? 908fs$97asf@z. Of course. :)
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Who said you need to go with your REAL place of born ?
Security questions sucks, i never remember them. Mostly there are few to pick.
It will end bad someday. I dont know how, but all these different passwords on different sites will go wrong for the whole internet thing.
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Yahoo went downhill a long time ago. I have a couple old accounts but I stopped using them for anything important years ago and use gmail mainly.
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You more or less have to use Gmail these days since every other service seems to die randomly, be blocked by nearly every website, or costs money to keep using. I tried using some other free email services over the years and that was my experience at least.
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yahoo is shit inactive for few month or year your account get deleted
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if some hacker publishes the password for my addy mrdaddy58@yahoo.com pls don't look at it and forget it, thank you
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i have seen it in the big list... but i tell nobody that it was "NaughtySloth69"
Your secret is safe by me :D
Good encryption as a sidenote.
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i used my yahoo mail the last time..... hm... maybe 4 years ago :-D (and it was only a emailadresse for stuff that would spam me for nearly sure...= no loose).
And because i NEVER use the password on more then 1 site .... hackers have fun with my informations (Name and so on are always faked by free things and were they don't need my name for sending stuff or such things). So double "have fun hackers" :-D
I make them only work^^
And i never use the same "security questions" or at least not the same answers :)
( From the answers calculated... i came from everywhere and have a zoo at home :DDDD )
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I reactivated by Yahoo account some time ago after it was out of use for years , now its full of spam
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Everything seems fine for me until now
If it happened that would be so bad as its linked to my steam account
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The massive breach of Yahoo looks like it was worse than the original stories, which were already bad, but now Yahoo has said that all 3 billion users had their accounts breached.
Yahoo first reported 1.5 billion accounts had been breached in 2013, something that was announced just days before Verizon acquired the search giant. Verizon, which now owns Yahoo, has said that the attack had breached every Yahoo account... which means 3 billion accounts were attacked. Verizon disclosed the new findings after an internal investigation into the 3 billion account breach, working with the SEC. The filing reads: "Subsequent to Yahoo's acquisition by Verizon, and during integration, the company recently obtained new intelligence and now believes, following an investigation with the assistance of outside forensic experts, that all Yahoo user accounts were affected by the August 2013 theft". 3 billion accounts had their phone numbers, birth dates, security questions and answers, as well as hashed passwords. Yahoo said last year that the breached data didn't include "passwords in clear text, payment card data, or bank account information". But the story got worse, as we found out the encryption technique used was outdated. Verizon said that they are "committed to the highest standards of accountability and transparency, and we proactively work to ensure the safety and security of our users and networks in an evolving landscape of online threats". Chief Information Security Officer at Verizon, Chandra McMahon, said: "Our investment in Yahoo is allowing that team to continue to take significant steps to enhance their security, as well as benefit from Verizon's experience and resources".
Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/59369/yahoo-now-admits-3-billion-accounts-breached/index.html
So they were "only" off by 1,5 billion. >.<
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