Yahoo Mail Accounts Hacked

[RazorNF]

Yahoo acknowledges Yahoo Mail hack

Have your friends recently texted you about spam originating from your Yahoo Mail account? If so, that may be because you (and many of your friends) were hacked.

Yahoo acknowledged Thursday that attackers now own an undisclosed number of usernames and passwords to Yahoo Mail accounts. In a blog post, Jay Rossiter, the senior vice president in charge of Yahoo’s platforms and personalization products, wrote that the attackers had most likely hacked an external, third-party database and obtained the information there.

“We regret this has happened and want to assure our users that we take the security of their data very seriously,” Rossiter wrote.

Yahoo did not say how many accounts had been compromised, nor when the attacks had taken place. However, the company says it began notifying users that the attacks had taken place, and had begun using second sign-in verification to allow users to re-secure their accounts. Users who have been affected, unsurprisingly, will be asked to change their password, and may receive an SMS text to that effect, Yahoo said.

read more http://www.pcworld.com/article/2092198/yahoo-acknowledges-yahoo-mail-hack.html

 

[Bannen]

Thanks for posting; this hasn't happened recently to my yahoo email (knock on wood), but it happened to me about 3 years ago. All of a sudden most of the people in my contacts list received an email from 'me', just something dumb like 'Hey dude, check out this link it's totally cool' and then a spammy link.

The interesting thing was how illuminating it was about my friends/contacts: most of them knew it wasn't me and emailed me that I was probably hacked... but a few actually were angry at me for 'sending' them ridiculous spam... when anyone who truly knows me knows that I'd never send them a spammy email containing phrases like 'hey dude/totally cool' etc plus a totally crap link to a garbage site.

I explained to everyone, changed my password, and literally had to scold the people who thought I'd actually sent them the message, like "Don't you know me at all?!"

Ha ha

 

[NameOmnia]

That's because yahoo mail is a crap! I find gmail 10.000 times better.
Thanks for sharing anyway.