Yahoo Confirms 500 Million User Accounts Breached

Perhaps this would explain how my credit card got hacked multiple times this year...

 

500 million people use Yahoo? Wow

 

Yahoo! have been around for a very long time. I don't know why people still use the "people still use this email service?" joke. It's just e-mail. It's not a social network. Also a lot of people don't find it convenient to switch email addresses for literally no reason other than to apparently "catch up with the times" or whatever. Again, it's not MySpace vs Facebook.

Gmail and Outlook have been hacked multiple times as well. So-called relevance doesn't mean anything when it comes to security.

Sorry, that always bothers me haha.

 

I agree with the moderator. The people that run the security of these emails are being quickly out-learned by the hackers and whatnot. One thing about technology, is that it changes so fast...so if you don't keep up with the pace, others will take advantage of your ignorance.

 

I use it for fantasy sports as it's still superior. Luckily I change my password often.

 

Almost any variable of crap like "blah blah blah in the year 2016" bothers me haha, so I'm right there with you. I know it's not directly what you're saying, but you having a small somewhat related tangent hit that nerve hah.

 

folks are always bother me about using pigeons, but i reckon pigeons don't get hacked

 

Guess I'm changing passwords on my email again.....

Chorus.fm: your go to source to know when places get hacked. -me.

 

Hackers, like most other people, have forgotten about the existence of Hotmail (so I'm good)

 

It's not just about catching up with the times though, Gmail is more popular because it's pretty much better in every conceivable way. Syncs better with mobile devices than Yahoo ever does (and I've used at least 5 different devices with gmail and yahoo accounts), the website is much much smoother and it filters out spam better. I'm not defending the joke cause millions of people clearly do still use Yahoo, just pointing out that there's more to it than what's trendy.

 

I obviously know all of this haha. But it pretty much begins and ends at sending and receiving for many people. And I imagine not every one of those 500 million accounts are regularly active anyhow.

 

I bet half of that is just for fantasy sports.

 

Can I blame two of my fantasy teams being 0-2 on the Yahoo Hack?

 

I can't remember my password anyway

 

Yahoo was my very first email that I made in middle school around 1998. Still use it for non-important emails (Gmail for important ones). But yes still on Yahoo every day for Fantasy sports. Still the best platform around.

 

Doesn't look like this is your issue:

 

Hotmail hasn't been forgotten—it's been replaced (along with live.com and msn.com) and rolled up into outlook.com. Microsoft is probably just as targeted or more targeted than Yahoo.

I agree completely. Yahoo sync is simply not good (unless things have changed recently). Gmail and outlook.com (Microsoft's free email, my preferred platform) sync perfectly across all platforms.

 

Yeah I never said Yahoo was good, heh. I go between Gmail and Outlook as well.