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I hope they stopped depending upon those security questions if that is part of the leak. On a side note, this seems like a great time to be an abuser. One can collect so much information about users - they may actually have more data than any govt in the world.
I hope everyone stops relying on security questions!
I'm speechless. More and more are migrating to cloud these days, I expect more and more epidemic leakage will come. I host everything myself except for email, which is always a headache but contains more private info than all others I manage combined. Maybe it is time to run a small email server again but it is easily said than done, gosh please give me something like a working PGP or whatever for safe emails(PGP is…
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What is your mother's maiden name? T3m92uGKhWMRV7Um0WVF50LKQNowpoe0FWwWryL2r9jkuAHyLTCY8QoY79iMiSjo6CHCZGWl
Which only works until you call in asking for a password reset and when they ask you the question you just say "I just hit the keyboard a bunch".
Guys... let's just delete our Yahoo accounts. That company can't go bankrupt fast enough. It will sell our data for quarters.
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What is your mother's maiden name? T3m92uGKhWMRV7Um0WVF50LKQNowpoe0FWwWryL2r9jkuAHyLTCY8QoY79iMiSjo6CHCZGWl
Which only works until you call in asking for a password reset and when they ask you the question you just say "I just hit the keyboard a bunch".
Guys... let's just delete our Yahoo accounts. That company can't go bankrupt fast enough. It will sell our data for quarters.
Is it possible to extract all emails+contacts from yahoo without paying ? furthermore my paypal account is linked to yahoo.
Notice that this is yet ANOTHER hack, not the one HN was talking about a few month ago. also notice they were still using MD5 passwords AND without salts ... None of these hacks have been disclosed directly to their users, I never got an email saying I may have been hacked and I should reset my password, irresponsible.