On the plus side, I only use my one email account with yahoo for spam.
Perhaps I can go through my spam folder and disable all those irina781@yahoo.com types of accounts.
Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B
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#22A spokesman for Oath, the new name of Verizon’s Yahoo unit, said the company determined last week that the break-in was much worse than thought, after it received new information from outside the company. Can they claw back money from Yahoo shareholders because of this?
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#233 billion - we live in an age where half the population of the earth can exist on a service, and everyone is vulnerable. Yes, a good chunk of these are probably duplicates for business / spam / anon accounts, but this is where the world is trending. How long is it until facebook or google have a massive breach?
If that's the case, I think the bigger news then is that yahoo actually had 3B users!
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#243 billion - we live in an age where half the population of the earth can exist on a service, and everyone is vulnerable. Yes, a good chunk of these are probably duplicates for business / spam / anon accounts, but this is where the world is trending. How long is it until facebook or google have a massive breach?
Well I would say close to half of those accounts are duplicate - as in not 1 account per person.
The article mentions this:
> The number of individuals affected by the 2013 attack is smaller than 3 billion, because some people have multiple accounts ...
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#25I know many mention facebook or google being hacked will be an even bigger deal. But I wonder, with all the online spaces google/facebook has under control (ads, analytics, cdns, dns, crawlers, your phone, etc.) if they suspect a breach, they could literally disable any website or device that tries to share that information.
If it happened in the past, well, who will know?
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#26When I was on Facebook today, I saw an ad with a photo of a minivan, and some copy about finding a new vehicle. The ad was posted by Yahoo. When I clicked it, it took me to the search result for minivans. This company feels like an AI experiment.
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#27I feel a little sad that pay-walled articles make it to the top of HN. I'm sure the article is interesting, but a lot of us can't actually read it.
Re: Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B
#28I know many mention facebook or google being hacked will be an even bigger deal. But I wonder, with all the online spaces google/facebook has under control (ads, analytics, cdns, dns, crawlers, your phone, etc.) if they suspect a breach, they could literally disable any website or device that tries to share that information. If it happened in the past, well, who will know?
Plenty of leaked stuff (like credit cards) moves around on the "dark web" via TOR sites, which most of those won't impact. Not unless they went as far as to make the Android OS check that you're visiting onion sites and scanning for leaked information to block them, which would be pretty extreme.
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#293 billion - we live in an age where half the population of the earth can exist on a service, and everyone is vulnerable. Yes, a good chunk of these are probably duplicates for business / spam / anon accounts, but this is where the world is trending. How long is it until facebook or google have a massive breach?
If that's the case, I think the bigger news then is that yahoo actually had 3B users!
Nobody ever said they are active users or unique individuals. I know for example I personally created hundreds of accounts on Yahoo! over the years.
Re: Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B
#30I know many mention facebook or google being hacked will be an even bigger deal. But I wonder, with all the online spaces google/facebook has under control (ads, analytics, cdns, dns, crawlers, your phone, etc.) if they suspect a breach, they could literally disable any website or device that tries to share that information. If it happened in the past, well, who will know?
Nothing would stop someone from being able to share it via the darknet. Tor, Freenet, Zeronet, etc. There's no way that news would be able to be stopped.