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> It does not have much high impact negative publicity associated to it (yet). A billion compromised accounts seems like it could fill that role. Many people m
by __derek__ 10y ago
> It does not have much high impact negative publicity associated to it (yet).
A billion compromised accounts seems like it could fill that role. Many people may not understand their online information's privacy/security, but that's an ear-grabbing number.
- mholmes680 10y agoAgreed. Anecdotally, my mother called me last night asking what she needed to do about Yahoo's new breach. I said, no no, dont worry we already changed your password. She said nope, NEW news! My mother (and her news) heard this loud and clear. Thats a problem, and VZ has every right to renegotiate -- this has passed the point of "we're yahoo so we're big and an unlucky target". This is, in my mother's words, "what the hell is wrong with those people, I'm done, how do i get everything to go to gmail".
- hughw 10y agoIf you changed her password in September, you shouldn't have to change now, right? Since the "new" breach is from 2013.
- __derek__ 10y agoThat's the thing: people who don't understand this news may now think that this is an ongoing, regular thing with Yahoo. If they react by switching, Yahoo will only be left with people's spam-collecting accounts.
- mholmes680 10y agoOn top of that, I thought I understood this news, then got a prompt from yahoo logon that I may have been compromised. So, I mean, I still don't understand the implications and I consider myself considerably more tuned in than my mother.
- mholmes680 10y agoquite honestly, I'm about to start changing her password monthly for Yahoo... because I can't think of any reason to trust them.