For years I have told my clients to stay away from Yahoo as far as possible. Those with Yahoo email accounts I have told to to switch their email provider.
Yes, it is a BIG hassle to do that but now it seems to be imperative to do it - finally.
Yahoo has been majorly hacked!
In 2014 already and they have kept it a secret until recently!
Reported numbers of compromised accounts vary from 500 thousand to one billion affected users but that is irrelevant; relevant is that practically all sensitive information got copied off by miscreants. User names, passwords, date-of-birth, SSNs, security questions and the answers, phone numbers, "real names", address information and the list goes on...
In California the first class action lawsuit against Yahoo has been filed and many more are expected to follow all over the nation.
What to do?
First change your Yahoo password, make the new one at least 12 characters long. Read this article from 2011(!) and this one from 2013(!) on my blog for more information.
More info on Passwords is in these articles:
Passwords that are NOT a password
Passwords the Latest
You have a Yahoo email account or use other Yahoo services (like Yahoo Financials!) and you still are "on the fence"? I can't help you, actually nobody can help you but yourself.
As usual I welcome comments and suggestions right here in the blog. Thank you in advance.
Stay safe.
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