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.

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Re:$39 Billion in market cap

[ShanghaiBill]

I don't see how Yahoo has $39 billion in market cap.

Yahoo was an early investor in Alibaba, and owns about 15% of Alibaba's stock. If you subtract out the value of that stock, the rest of Yahoo actually had negative value prior to Verizon's offer.

Re:Yahoo should simply cease to exist

[Motherfucking Shit]

I'm finding more and more places that won't accept mailinator.com when registering, including its various alternate domains (there's a project that keeps an updated list). A lot of sites now completely disallow signing up through Tor, too. In order to make a Bugzilla account to report something anonymously, I had to first create a Github account, which you can do over Tor, and then use that to authenticate to Bugzilla. Fucking annoying.

Re:If this deal doesn't collapse...

[scrib]

I agree completely. My password manager comment section is full of randomly generated passwords to answer those damn "security" questions.
"In what city were you born?" "cnf3kPiDkYDeYUur"