It was probably the NSA.
Whatever happened to the word, "affected"?
they’re reporting it now, but when did it happen?
People MUST learn that absolutely NOTHING is private anymore. Every form of communication can and is being compromised.
Yeah, cell-phone-libs, because you voted for it !!!
I thought something was up when I started getting spam from myself. I’ve since changed my password and ran a virus scan. No infected files of mal ware.
I bet it was our government. Same people who did Target and Neiman Marcus.
I have had the same email address since the 90’s, I guess I should change my password
This is not news to me.
I have had more than person with a Yahoo account, in my contact list, whose Yahoo account was breached and all their contacts, including me, began getting lots of phishing expeditions, pretending to be them.
Its happened at least four times in the last two years, and my contact list represenets a very small insignificant subset of America.
I asked them all, each time, to end their Yahoo account and just stick with the one they get for free from their Internet service provider, which are always just as accessible from anywhere as a Yahoo, Gmail, MNBC or Aol account and they - an Internet service provider, is usually running better firewalls than the third-party outfits.
And it is very easy to NOT breach any accound limits for Email with the ISP, just by using any good client Email application on your computer that runs a POP or IMAP Email function between your PC and the ISP. Nothing needs to be left sitting on your ISP’s servers, once its brought into your PC by the software. (I use Thunderbird).
The only thing my Email accound on my ISP servers know is that I have the account. I have no personal profile or contact list or anything else set up in their web-based service for the Email. It’s all only on my PC, and Emails to me are gone from their servers as fast as my Email software polls the service, gets new Emails, brings them onto my PC and deletes the copy at the ISP. My outgoing Emails pass through the ISP but no copies ever sit on the ISP’s servers, because I don’t send them from their web-based on-line service, the client software and the ISP does it all in the background - passed through and gone.
Why people use the likes of the Yahoos, Gmails etc for Email I have never understood.
Bttt.
I reset my password for the 2nd time in the last 6 months.
Below is a severe warning by Comcast re not using Yahoo/ATT/SBC email system. This just came up a few minutes ago.
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