What to do if your Yahoo account was one of the 3 billion hackedEmma FierbergMatthew Stuart
If you’re storing your passwords on your email, in case your email gets hacked, so do all your other accounts. For safety reasons, you could either write them by hand and store them in a secure place, where only you have access, or you could use password management software to keep ...
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It’s a good place to start. While some security experts argue that it’s more important to pick a complicated password than to change them frequently, if you haven’t changed your Yahoo password since 2013 do it now. And even if you have changed your Yahoo password in the last three y...
This might sound obvious, but if you're like a lot of people, you might not use Yahoo Mail as your primary email account. Yahoo has 1 billion monthly active users on its services overall and just 225 million monthly active users for its Yahoo Mail service, according to figures the company...
(Image credit: Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Two Tom's Guide staffers saw a tacit admission that something may be wrong when they tried to log into their Yahoo Mail accounts this morning. Both received suggestions to change their passwords, ev...
Here's what you can do now to protect yourself. Log into your Yahoo account This might sound obvious, but if you're like a lot of people, you might not use Yahoo Mail as your primary email account. Yahoo has 1 billion monthly active users on its services overall and just 225 million...
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If you haven’t changed your password since late 2014, which is when the breach occurred, you should do so immediately. Yahoo also says it will be contacting affected users and asking them to supply “alternate means of account verification.” (This probably means you’ll be asked to replace...
I'm wondering if something's going on with Yahoo mail, or is this just some coincidence, and if it is just a coincidence, then who hacked my email, and how did they even do it? I certainly never told anyone my password for anything, let alone my email address. I don't have a ...