Alan Stainer

Tech head through and through.

Yahoo data breach in August 2013 much bigger than thought

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Yahoo data breach in August 2013 much bigger than thought

Yahoo’s owners Verizon have now admitted that every single Yahoo account at the time was exposed during the data breach. That’s roughly 3 billion accounts compromised!

My advice (and I strongly suggest you take it) is to switch to a different provider. Yahoo had a duty of care and they failed massively. If you actually want to keep your Yahoo account (I think you must be crazy), then for heavens sake do everything you can to make sure it is secure. Have you got a strong enough password? Have you enabled 2 step verification? You know the drill.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/03/technology/business/yahoo-breach-3-billion-accounts/index.html

If you want to know how to enable 2 step verification for your Yahoo account, go here: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN5013.html

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/03/technology/business/yahoo-breach-3-billion-accounts/index.html

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