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Yahoo recently announced that hackers were able to get into their system and steal a lot of personal information. Here’s what you need to know, and what you need to do.
When did the data breach take place?
This is one of the more concerning factors about this problem. Yahoo says that the hack into their servers actually happened back in 2014 – 2 years ago. This means that the 500 million users that were affected by this have gone for two years not even knowing there was a problem. The real question is, when did Yahoo find out about it? If they knew about it in 2014, then they have acted quite irresponsibly in not announcing it. If they just found out about it, how can their security systems and processes be so lax that a breach of this magnitude can go unnoticed for two years?
What information was stolen?
Yahoo has concluded from their investigation that these things may have been stolen:
Does this only affect Yahoo email users?
Unfortunately, probably not. Yahoo owns several other popular websites, including Flickr and Tumblr. They also own the popular fantasy football site called Rivals. If you currently have, or have ever had, an account at any of those sites, you need to change your password and security questions right away.
What do you need to do?
If you have ever had a Yahoo account, or an account with any of the sites mentioned above, yes you need to do a few things:
1. Change your password
2. Create new security questions
3. Change password on other sites where that password was used
4. Don’t use Yahoo
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Yahoo recently announced that hackers were able to get into their system and steal a lot of personal information. Here’s what you need to know, and what you need to do.
When did the data breach take place?
This is one of the more concerning factors about this problem. Yahoo says that the hack into their servers actually happened back in 2014 – 2 years ago. This means that the 500 million users that were affected by this have gone for two years not even knowing there was a problem. The real question is, when did Yahoo find out about it? If they knew about it in 2014, then they have acted quite irresponsibly in not announcing it. If they just found out about it, how can their security systems and processes be so lax that a breach of this magnitude can go unnoticed for two years?
What information was stolen?
Yahoo has concluded from their investigation that these things may have been stolen:
Does this only affect Yahoo email users?
Unfortunately, probably not. Yahoo owns several other popular websites, including Flickr and Tumblr. They also own the popular fantasy football site called Rivals. If you currently have, or have ever had, an account at any of those sites, you need to change your password and security questions right away.
What do you need to do?
If you have ever had a Yahoo account, or an account with any of the sites mentioned above, yes you need to do a few things:
1. Change your password
2. Create new security questions
3. Change password on other sites where that password was used
4. Don’t use Yahoo