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posted by martyb on Wednesday October 04 2017, @02:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the Yay!-Yahoo!-Oh...-wait. dept.

Yahoo has now reported every single account was affected by a data breach in 2013:

In 2016, Yahoo disclosed that more than one billion of about three billion accounts had likely been affected by the hack. In its disclosure Tuesday, the company said all accounts were likely victimized.

Yahoo included the finding in a recent update to its Account Security Update page, saying that it found out about the wider breach through new intelligence obtained during the company's integration into Verizon Communications. Outside forensic experts assisted in the discovery, the company said.

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  • (Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday October 04 2017, @03:35AM (3 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Wednesday October 04 2017, @03:35AM (#576910)

    Should I be worried? If memory serves I had 3 yahoo email accounts that I never accessed once I got the account I was after. Is this a problem? Is it worse considering I no longer know the login, nor the password for any of them? Although I'm pretty sure what the password is, but I have no clue what the login is/was.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by takyon on Wednesday October 04 2017, @04:00AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday October 04 2017, @04:00AM (#576915) Journal

    Ask the hackers to help you regain access to your account.

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    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:41AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday October 04 2017, @08:41AM (#576948) Journal

      no - just let the hackers read all the spam for you.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @03:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @03:04PM (#577046)

    Similar here, used the Yahoo account for "reference" and also for access to one of their special interest groups. Don't care if anyone else uses it. I suppose the worst that would happen is that someone uses my login to spam the group, but there isn't going to be much money in that!