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Post by peteetongman on Dec 10, 2013 15:50:44 GMT -5
I have read several anecdotal stories that say yahoo mail has been hacked and Yahoo is having trouble recovering. Anybody with yahoo mail seeing problems?
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Post by peteetongman on Dec 10, 2013 15:54:28 GMT -5
KUSA - Many Yahoo Mail users found they couldn't access their accounts on Tuesday. Last week Yahoo announced it would no longer allow people to access their mail unless they use a secure access point. Yahoo Mail users need to check their device settings to make sure SSL is turned on. If users are logging on through a web browser, https needs to be used in the web address. This comes as Yahoo and other organizations like Gmail and Facebook have been hacked and user passwords compromised. Yahoo Mail posted this on Facebook Tuesday morning: "As we posted last week, Yahoo takes security very seriously and is working to protect your inbox. We're shutting down non-SSL access to Yahoo Mail via POP and SMTP starting today. To prepare for this change, or if you're having network connection issues, we encourage you to check your device's settings and enable SSL connections so you can continue to access Yahoo Mail: yhoo.it/1izMz5F" (KUSA-TV © 2013 Multimedia Holdings Corporation) www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=368151
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Post by nolaxride on Dec 17, 2013 19:30:41 GMT -5
KUSA - Many Yahoo Mail users found they couldn't access their accounts on Tuesday. Last week Yahoo announced it would no longer allow people to access their mail unless they use a secure access point. Yahoo Mail users need to check their device settings to make sure SSL is turned on. If users are logging on through a web browser, https needs to be used in the web address. This comes as Yahoo and other organizations like Gmail and Facebook have been hacked and user passwords compromised. Yahoo Mail posted this on Facebook Tuesday morning: "As we posted last week, Yahoo takes security very seriously and is working to protect your inbox. We're shutting down non-SSL access to Yahoo Mail via POP and SMTP starting today. To prepare for this change, or if you're having network connection issues, we encourage you to check your device's settings and enable SSL connections so you can continue to access Yahoo Mail: yhoo.it/1izMz5F" (KUSA-TV © 2013 Multimedia Holdings Corporation) www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=368151yeppers... the browser automatically connected... however, I was using outlook as my reader and had to change the settings to allow for SSL and secure connections....
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Post by peteetongman on Jan 30, 2014 21:14:33 GMT -5
Yahoo Email Account Passwords Stolen NEW YORK January 31, 2014 (AP) Associated Press Usernames and passwords of some of Yahoo's email customers have been stolen and used to gather personal information about people those Yahoo mail users have recently corresponded with, the company said Thursday. Yahoo didn't say how many accounts have been affected. Yahoo is the second-largest email service worldwide, after Google's Gmail, according to the research firm comScore. There are 273 million Yahoo mail accounts worldwide, including 81 million in the U.S. It's the latest in a string of security breaches that have allowed hackers to nab personal information using software that analysts say is ever more sophisticated. Up to 70 million customers of Target stores had their personal information and credit and debit card numbers compromised late last year, and Neiman Marcus was the victim of a similar breach in December. "It's an old trend, but it's much more exaggerated now because the programs the bad guys use are much more sophisticated now," says Avivah Litan, a security analyst at the technology research firm Gartner. "We're clearly under attack." Yahoo Inc. said in a blog post on its breach that "The information sought in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts' most recent sent emails." That could mean hackers were looking for additional email addresses to send spam or scam messages. By grabbing real names from those sent folders, hackers could try to make bogus messages appear more legitimate to recipients. "It's much more likely that I'd click on something from you if we email all the time," says Richard Mogull, analyst and CEO of Securois, a security research and advisory firm. abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/yahoo-email-account-passwords-stolen-22305108
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