Yahoo: Your Personal Info Stolen
If you use Yahoo! mail (or your ISP uses Yahoo Mail) you need to read this news item.
* Yahoo breach; at least 500 million accounts affected
“According to a company statement, stolen information may have included names, email address telephone numbers, birth dates, hashed passwords and, in some instances, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.” Read more..
[ I think it’s safe to mentally remove the “may have” from that.. ]
Please forward this on to your friends and loved ones who use Yahoo! Mail. Tell ’em they need to change their passwords, and beware of suspicious “phishing” emails that sound like they know you..
And if you don’t know what “phishing” is by now.. please stop using the Internet.
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