Yahoo warns users of potential malicious activity on their accounts

[Zorro]

Yahoo Inc. is warning users of potentially malicious activity on their accounts between 2015 and 2016. It's the latest development in the Internet company's investigation of a mega-breach that exposed more than 1 billion users' data a few years ago.

Yahoo confirmed Wednesday that it was notifying users that their accounts had potentially been compromised, but it declined to say how many people were affected.

In a statement, the Sunnyvale, Calif., company tied some of the potential compromises to what it has described as the “state-sponsored actor” responsible for the theft of private data from more than 1 billion user accounts in 2013 and 2014. The stolen data included email addresses, birth dates and answers to security questions.

The catastrophic breach raised questions about Yahoo's security and destabilized the company's deal to sell its email service, websites and mobile applications to Verizon Communications Inc.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-yahoo-verizon-20170215-story.html

[Maeve]

1. I'm sorry, but warning folks of stuff that already happened is dumb

Yeah, I got hacked. Yeah, spam went out in my name. Yeah, I dealt with it and never kept much on Yahoo anyway.
Ooo, they know when I was born! That's worth a free meal at Dennys!!!

[democratisphere]

2. Yahoo needs to be scuttled.

[Iggo]

3. Theft, my ass. They sold it. (n/t)

[2naSalit]

4. I didn't use my

real identity or any real info when signing on to the acct I was using. Haven't checked that email in months, I originally became suspicious of them years ago when I started receiving spam in my email from my own email address.

They are toast in my book.