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Business Insider reports that a compromise of Yahoo! that had been acknowledged to affect "at least 500 million" accounts may have affected significantly more. Citing an unnamed "former Yahoo executive familiar with its security practices," the story says that the company's "main user database, or UDB" which stores the details for users of several of the company's services, was compromised. If the entire database were copied, information on one to three billion accounts could have been stolen.
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Anonymous Source: Yahoo! Breach May Have Affected 1 to 3 Billion Accounts
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 20 2016, @09:48PM
My (non-US) ISP began the process to ditch Yahoo as their email provider the minute this news hit the airwaves.
It was so fast it made me wonder if they knew something in advance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @10:26PM
They have probably been considering it in the background for awhile due to a combination of the price, the liability of using Yahoo! due to the pending sale, and that Yahoo! doesn't play nice with mobile. In addition, many businesses change providers every other year behind the scenes. The last bit of news was, most likely, the proverbial last straw.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:07PM
If Yahoo has any respect for their business partners they'll tell them before the media, and you.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:46PM
If Yahoo has any respect for their business partners they'll tell them before the media, and you.
That could well be the case, and would be fair enough. I'm not convinced Yahoo! is well enough run to have that kind of respect though.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Friday October 21 2016, @12:03AM
pitiful sexist joke ahead, if sexism offends you stop reading, cover your ears and shout LALALALALA.
> If Yahoo has any respect for their business partners they'll tell them before the media, and you.
Dude, Yahoo CEO is a woman. So, expect the crisis to be managed in a feminine way:
"Dear valued customer, your password is about three days old, do you want to change it anyway? press button below, which also says you accept not to sue us, just in case. Thank you! :* :* :*"
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