Yahoo - 1 billion account info stolen - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2016, 09:59:45 pm
content: Most of you probably heard the news (12/14/2016), 1 billion Yahoo user account info stolen in 2013!"On Wednesday, Yahoo revealed the second major breach of its systems, following the September disclosure of a widespread hack. The newly announced intrusion, which occurred in 2013,affected more than 1 billion users, and the government employee data is likely part of that cache. The other hack was disclosed earlier but took place later, in 2014, and Yahoo has said it threatened 500 million accounts. "Yahoo has taken steps to secure user accounts and is working closely with law enforcement," the company said in a statement issued Wednesday." (Bold added)https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/stolen-yahoo-data-includes-government-employee-informationI would have like to see Yahoo a viable competitor to Google, but Yahoo is becoming a joke. Marissa Mayer's reputation took a similar turn. I suppose, at least, she has so many dollars she can't finish counting them in ten life time. I don't know if her name will turn up elsewhere given how poorly Yahoo did.

author: Macbeth
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2016, 10:10:09 pm
content: Somebody bring in Carly Fiorina to show Marissa the ropes and save the company!

author: julian1
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2016, 10:25:27 pm
content: Yahoo actually installed a backdoor (kernel level rootkit) for the NSA behind the back of their own security teamhttps://diracdeltas.github.io/blog/surveillance/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13182120

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 15, 2016, 10:31:34 pm
content: Quote from: Macbeth on December 15, 2016, 10:10:09 pmI think one person as a CEO can only do so much damage.And then they always manage to surprise me.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2016, 01:02:33 am
content: Quote from: Macbeth on December 15, 2016, 10:10:09 pmSomeone bring in Carly Florina to show Marissa how to submit application for next presidential elections.

author: Johnny10
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2016, 01:19:08 am
content: Do they have 1 billion customers?Or does everyone have 5-10 accounts?Yea, we are doing so well we have over a billion accounts and we care so much about them that we allowed all their data to be stolen!Oh! and we lost approx 4 dollars per e-mail account while you had to endure hours of meaningless advertisements.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2016, 06:05:31 pm
content: 1 billion accounts, spread over a few dozen sites. Remember Yahoo owns Flickr, which is a reasonable image site. Aslo remember they make it very difficult to close an account, thus you have probably 50 million inactive accounts, plus 100 million that are being run by bots to deliver spam, keeping the post rate below the flagging rate of the Yawho? SMTP filters.You probably had an email account there sometime, that you abandoned long ago, but which is still there on a server somewhere, growing slowly every month from non deduplicated spam mails.

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2016, 06:41:33 pm
content: Sounds like they are counting accounts from their heyday. Unless allieexpress and co are also included.

author: eugenenine
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2016, 08:50:45 pm
content: Quote from: SeanB on December 19, 2016, 06:05:31 pmThis. I still have a yahoo account that I haven't used since around the year 2000 when they started intrusive advertising. They refused to delete it so it sits there doing nothing but collecting more spam and inflating their user count so they can still pretend to be legit.