Yahoo/flickr Hacked

[ricktas]

Yahoo have announced that they have been hacked and that 500 million email addresses / flickr accounts are compromised.

If you have a yahoo or flickr account, it is recommended you change your password immediately.

[I @ M]

From the news item I heard on the radio today it appears that it has remained unreported for quite some time.
An "immediate" change of password may already be too late.

Thankfully I don't have an account with either.

Wonder what's going to happen when facebook suffers a major leakage of personal information ---- or has it already happened but due to privacy laws nobody has been told yet.

[ameerat42]

They said on the "nioose" it was a state-sponsored hack, but that ?Yahoo didn't want to name them.


(I think that'll do)

[Mark L]

So happened nearly two years ago ........ https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account/SL...pressions=true
And for those with yahoo stuff, a bit more info ...... https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account/SL...pressions=true

[ameerat42]

Hmm! Lark!!-y I ignored that advice a couple of days ago. Did not re-set pwd. Used a different browser.
Got into mail no (?apparent) trouble.

[cupic]

This was covered before earlier in the year
So If this hack was 2 years ago changing password earlier this year will suffice
cheers

[ricktas]

Wonder what's going to happen when facebook suffers a major leakage of personal information ---- or has it already happened but due to privacy laws nobody has been told yet.

hehe. FB doesn't have personal information..it sells everything about you.. to anyone willing to pay.

[Mark L]

Someone around here really needs to change their avatar not their password.