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If you’re a member of the photo sharing service Flickr, you might want to change your password as soon as possible. Yahoo, which owns Flickr, has reportedly suffered a major hack.

Recode reports that Yahoo is preparing this week to confirm a massive data breach — a hack that may have exposed several hundred million user accounts. The “widespread” and “serious” intrusion is likely to lead to government investigations and legal action.

http://petapixel.com/2016/09/22/yahoo-r ... sword-now/

Just changed mine, and added phone recovery - just in case.

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Thanks for the heads-up.

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I don't know my yahoo password, not been able to log in for ages.


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A tiny bit more info from the Beeb that will be updated

Attack on Yahoo hit 500 million users - BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37447016

They'll be sued back to the Stone Age where they belong.

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Password reset and finally motivated enough to implement two-step verification on this account.

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8 million UK users? Surely a lot of those must be dormant?
The most worrying is the unencrypted security questions. Given that a lot of sites still use sensitive questions like mother's maiden name etc, this could be an issue

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