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Of the free email providers, why is it that Yahoo seems to be the most hacked out of any of them. They really need to clean up their efforts.
by jmspring 13y ago
Of the free email providers, why is it that Yahoo seems to be the most hacked out of any of them. They really need to clean up their efforts.
- mvikramaditya 13y agoCould be that the typical Yahoo mail user is less technically savvy than the users of other email providers and more prone to making mistakes which makes it easier for the account to be hacked.
- jmspring 13y agoI don't know, hotmail, aol, yahoo...I see them all at about the same level of general ability.
- dredmorbius 13y agoYahoo are still huge. I don't know if Gmail's passed them in users yet, but as of a year or so back, on a large (and admittedly old) general corpus, Yahoo was at least 2x larger than the next largest service provider. Given technical debt and other management issues, they're a somewhat appealing target (lots of payoff, possibly easier to hack than better-managed systems). Not that other providers haven't been hacked as well.
- Mikeb85 13y agoDunno, Hotmail used to get hacked all the time.