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Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Information From Over 1 Billion Accounts (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a breaking report from ABC News: Yahoo says it believes hackers stole data from more than one billion user accounts in August 2013. The Sunnyvale, California, company says it's a different breach from the one it disclosed in September, when it said 500 million accounts were exposed. That new hack revelation raises questions about whether Verizon will try to change the terms of its $4.8 billion proposed acquisition of Yahoo. Yahoo says the information stolen may include names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates and security questions and answers. The company says it believes bank-account information and payment-card data were not affected.
....we know our privacy is non-existent. That Verizon could continue to talk of a deal after the last Yahoo! breach was amazing. If Verizon continues with an additional *billion* it shows that neither the market nor the establishment can penalise egregious data loss. It's pathetic that they claim bank account information is likely safe, but the combination of personal data _plus security questions and answers_ opens a whole new field. Wow.
It has utterly failed in every conceivable way. File for bankruptcy.
Thanks for the warning yahoo. They were hacked previously think it was around 2005 also went undisclosed.
Why would Verizon care if a company they are buying is horribly insecure? Especially when Yahoo's users don't seem to care.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
...The company says it believes bank-account information and payment-card data were not affected....
Geesh. Given the history of yahoo attacks and their announcements, give it a few weeks and then we'll probably see yet another announcement from yahoo about how hackers got bank account info and payment data. It has become apparent that Yahoo may not possess the ability to run an online portal securely.
I don't see how Yahoo has $39 billion in market cap.
They sold that shit. Again.
> bank-account information and payment-card data were not affected.
Anyone in their clear mind pays for anything from Yahoo?
Adjusted sales price: 4.844 billion
Yahoo has 1 billion accounts?? Surely most of them are dormant.
I wonder why this disclosure was made now. TFV mentions that "forensic experts" have just come up with this information. Should two major breaches like this in such a short time with delayed reporting mean the death penalty for Yahoo! ? Seems to indicate major incompetence.
I wonder what they do with the abuse reports I manually submit via Yahoo's 'blessed' spam reporting site? Pretty sad that they won't just check "abuse@yahoo.com" - I wonder what happens to reports which get sent to that altogether predictable and logical address?
To paraphrase Everett Dirksen, "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, that's a lot of users."
(His original quote was, "A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.")
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
How in the hell can they not make money with that many customers?
Now that Yahoo have warned their users it's those users who are responsible for changing their passwords. Not Yahoo's problem.
Shame about the publicity though, but you can't have everything.
.. of those whose addresses they have or can reasonably find. Certified mail of course, sent via the USPS. To notify them of the breach and offer up free ID theft protection.
I am not an ID Theft monitoring company salesman, but I'm starting to see some no-name services offered for some of the breaches I have been exposed to, mostly medical companies. Probably the next growth area for fake scamming companies.
The only thing Yahoo knows about me is my alternate email address and the contents of an outdated resume from a long ago job search. Big frickin whoop.
Yahoo now reports one Brazillion accounts compromised. Someone needs to tell them that this isn't the race they want to win. Much like 'catching' a cold or 'taking' a piss, but I guess if you are losing by every other metric you find one you can excel at ? Bottom line is all of their accounts were hacked and STILL nothing of value was lost.
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
I need one of these CEO jobs. One where I can be negligent, ignoring security issues and get paid millions.
I also need one that will give me tens of millions for getting terminated for doing a crappy job.
Frankly, if I were in Yahoo's CEO position and did nothing, it would likely be better than what the existing CEO has "accomplished".
How many accounts do Yahoo have?
So I think I'm just going to go to the darknet markets and sell all my personal info directly. At least then I get a cut.
I guess you'll have other thingies to do when your pubic hair starts showing.....