Yahoo on Wednesday revealed that Net bandits stole data associated with 1 billion of its user accounts — one of the largest data breaches in Internet history. The theft, which occurred in August 2013, is distinct from the theft disclosed earlier this fall, in which 500 million accounts were compromised, Yahoo CISO Bob Lord explained. Stolen information may include names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords using MD5 encryption — and in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.
It is really a shame that Yahoo that used to be the industry leader in Internet has fallen so low.
No one uses Yahoo search that was once the number 1 search engine, today every thing is based on Google.
Yahoo mail, ho hum, every one seems to being using google, and MS hotmail has seemed to come up from ho hum to decent, but Yahoo?
I hope this wakes them up to strive for intellectual and computer excellence or else just get out.
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Yahoo Suffers Major Data Breach Deja Vu
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. December 16, 2016 12:09 PMYahoo on Wednesday revealed that Net bandits stole data associated with 1 billion of its user accounts — one of the largest data breaches in Internet history. The theft, which occurred in August 2013, is distinct from the theft disclosed earlier this fall, in which 500 million accounts were compromised, Yahoo CISO Bob Lord explained. Stolen information may include names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords using MD5 encryption — and in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.
No one uses Yahoo search that was once the number 1 search engine, today every thing is based on Google.
Yahoo mail, ho hum, every one seems to being using google, and MS hotmail has seemed to come up from ho hum to decent, but Yahoo?
I hope this wakes them up to strive for intellectual and computer excellence or else just get out.
the times they are a changin'