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Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users

posted by janrinok on Sunday December 18 2016, @05:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the probably-too-late dept.

mrpg writes:

Yahoo has said data from more than one billion accounts may have been hacked.

But should you be worried - and what can you do to protect yourself in the future?

[...] Security expert and writer Brian Krebs said in a blog, "For years I have been urging friends and family to migrate off of Yahoo email, mainly because the company appeared to fall far behind its peers in blocking spam and other email-based attacks."

Yahoo has reassured its users: "We continuously enhance our safeguards and systems that detect and prevent unauthorised access to user account."

Some may not think of themselves as Yahoo users but the firm provides some BT and Sky customers' email accounts [in the UK].

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @05:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 18 2016, @05:17PM (#442716)

    Same with my ISP email. I was required to create it and did so with a 20 character keyboard mash plus a long word at the end (like skjfsdaofurp938ur9upoAbsentmindedness, and they print it on my bill, so I don't have to remember it for the few instances I have to use it). However, that thing is chalk full of spam. My ISP either sold a list of customers sometime or got hacked; however, they claim that neither of those are the case. The spammers definitely didn't land on that valid address via brute force and I doubt they would waste an exploit on my Chromebook just to get addresses for spamming.

  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Friday December 23 2016, @07:51AM

    by anubi (2828) on Friday December 23 2016, @07:51AM (#444982) Journal

    I have the same problem with "private" email boxes I establish and try to keep under wraps.

    I suspect javascript embedded in ads were the culprit.

    As far as I am concerned, Javascript is far too powerful. This kinda thing is like handing out invisibility cloaks to spammers.

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