If you use Yahoo email, Your Acct was Hacked

[Linville]

Okay now here come the lawsuits ...........sounds like rightly so too....



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Why would Verizon want to buy them now.....I would back out of the deal.
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Yahoo is sued for gross negligence over huge hacking
By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc was sued on Friday by a user who accused it of gross negligence over a massive 2014 hacking in which information was stolen from at least 500 million accounts.

The lawsuit was filed in the federal court in San Jose, California, one day after Yahoo disclosed the hacking, unprecedented in size, by what it believed was a "state-sponsored actor."

Ronald Schwartz, a New York resident, sued on behalf of all Yahoo users in the United States whose personal information was compromised. The lawsuit seeks class-action status and unspecified damages.

A Yahoo spokeswoman said the Sunnyvale, California-based company does not discuss pending litigation.

The attack could complicate Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's effort to shore up the website's flagging fortunes, two months after she agreed to a $4.8 billion sale of Yahoo's Internet business to Verizon Communications Inc .

Yahoo on Thursday said user information including names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and encrypted passwords had been compromised in late 2014.

But the lawsuit suggested that the breach might have been warded off had Yahoo, having been targeted by hackers before, lived up to its promise of taking user privacy "seriously" and bulked up its security measures.

It also faulted Yahoo for taking roughly three times longer than organizations typically need to uncover the breach.

Yahoo demonstrated "reckless disregard for the security of its users' personal information that it promised to protect," according to the complaint.

Schwartz is represented by two large U.S. class-action specialists, the law firms Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd and Labaton Sucharow.

The case is Schwartz v Yahoo Inc, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, No. 16-05456.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Chris Reese and Alan Crosby)

[Cricket]

i remember that now.  he was using Vogue meds.  Lunatic central.

And, as i saw fireplaces point out somewhere, defending me, when one starts a new forum, it is so not appropriate to email all ur contacts and tell them to join.  how gauche.

i relied on the 25 people i did invite, to tell others.

we would not be the same without our Bug.  So, hail ET!   I would have been thoroughly insane had i tried to work beside that nutjob for one more minute.  

We are family.

Yeah, he banned the best and most popular members which made no sense. I guess that's why he never booted me. HaHa.
After all you guys were gone, it turned into a bigger shit hole than it was before.

It's very comforting being here and having honest, great folks that watch over us and don't put up with the BS that was over there. My guess is that he told me because I was one of the few sr. members left there and he wanted to get me on his side. Well that sure backfired on him didn't it. My loyalties stayed with my friends that were kicked out for no good reason. He was trying to break up our family and it ended up breaking him up. Like they say, karma's a bitch.

Dis Bug luvs each and every one of you and will always stand by you guys forever.

[Linville]

Hi Cricket ....



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Got a Yahoo email account? Here are 3 things you need to do now
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Yahoo Inc. said Thursday that account information for at least 500 million users was stolen by hackers during a 2014 breach.

While thieves apparently were not able to acquire credit card information, bank account data or unencrypted passwords, Yahoo YHOO, -3.06%   users may have had their names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and, in some cases, security questions and answers, exposed.

So if you have a Yahoo email account, what should you do?

1. Change your password. Even though Yahoo says it will notify potentially affected users, change your password anyway to make sure. Do it now. Yahoo is phasing out security questions and encouraging users to sign up for their Account Key service, which can authenticate your account through your smartphone. That’s not a bad option. (If, for some reason your Yahoo account still asks you security questions, change them immediately.)

It shouldn’t have to be said in 2016, but people still do it, so ... for the love of God, don’t use the same password on multiple sites. That only makes it easier for hackers to hop from one of your accounts to another. If you do recycle passwords, stop it, and go change those ones too.

Read: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is just like you and me — and got hacked because of it
Other tips: Avoid obvious passwords like “password” or “me123” or common terms that can be easily guessed. Mix up letters, numbers and symbols.

If you want more peace of mind, change the security questions for any of your other accounts that may have them. For example, if one of your Yahoo security questions was “What’s your favorite sports team,” and your online bank account asks the same security question, you might want to change it in case your Yahoo answer was stolen and now some hacker in Russia now knows you’re an Eagles fan.
Yahoo Cyberattack: The Latest and Largest of Many

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The 500 million users affected by Thursday’s Yahoo cyberattack are the most recent victims of the rising data breach issue across the world. Here’s a look back at the last few years’ biggest breaches. Photo: Getty Images

2. Set up two-factor authentication. Passwords are inherently flawed, but two-factor authentication is the best way to secure them. When you’re updating your account, Yahoo will ask you if you want to do this. Do it. Essentially, it will send a text message to your smartphone with a unique login code each time you log into your account. Yes, it can be a pain. But it will also make it much less likely that someone else will be able to access your account.

3. Keep an eye on your account. While it’s hard to say what to look for, look for things that don’t look right. Are there emails in your “sent” box that you didn’t send? Are you getting shady-looking emails that ask you to click on links? Or official-looking emails asking for your password, or other personal information? Don’t fall for it. Remember, constant vigilance is the price of free email.
And if you’re one of those people snickering, “Who still uses Yahoo email?” go check yourself. If you once had a Yahoo account but you don’t use it anymore, log back on, delete what’s in there, and officially close it. Ten-year-old data can bite you in the butt just as easily as current information.

[Charon]

Oh, Cricket u were loved at ye olde place also.

Thank u so much linville. Great info.

I often use faulty information in security questions because two parties whom i knew were hacking me, would have known those answers. Not fraud. I choose very carefully the question and give an answer no one would ever guess.

boy, they surely took their time to inform their customers/users.

Geeze, as far as i can recall, the common man does not make money off class action lawsuits. The attorneys do.

There is so much still up in the air about online crimes. Online liars. Bullies. The level of responsibility of an email service that would rise above negligence. That is to be expected in this day and age.

But, yes, Ms.Bug and AH, tis a grand thing that we all got banned. Or, got the heck outta Dodge.

All the good ones did show up. Even if some are a tad bit late like runabout. Kidding, runabout.

[Raven]

Hey Fireplaces:

Yahoo broadcasts only garbage nowadays in a desperate attempt to generate traffic. Really pathetic given what this search engine once was.

I have a limited use email addy there because one vendor I use won't accept email logins from my current ISP. I expect that, if Verizon closes the deal on Yahoo, then the email service will not be free much longer.

I have had no problems with the hack so far, but I changed my password immediately after I was 1st notified. A timely notification which was deliver to users of Yahoo almost 2 years after the hack actually took place. Again... pathetic!

Raven

[Batgirl]

I think Yahoo!'s days are numbered, personally. I am job searching right now (laid off on maternity leave, oh joy!), and a leading consultant told me employers often look down on Yahoo! accounts, along with hotmail and AOL, as being dated. And don't get me started on Marissa Mayer the robot taking 2 weeks of maternity leave...

[Tbaronfl]

I was in corp HR for years and was shocked by the number of applicants who would give out email addresses like "bootycall123@" , "beerpongchamp@"and so forth. So, seriously I wouldn't worry about the provider at least as far as potential employers go. LOL

[EL085]

I have an old account with them that I almost never use. I logged in to make sure everything was good and it was. So hopefully mine wasn't targeted.

[Runabout]

This was on CNN today, basically yahoo say that they will comply with government rules and request! sure glad I don't use them!

[dbody]

It is always good to have one that they can look at it but never show them your true identity!

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As in one for bait... Or SEVERAL for bait lol!