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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm
Posts: 45931
Location: Belfast
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38324527Oh, just fcuk off into obscurity you useless gits.
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timark_uk
Moderator
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm
Posts: 12143
Location: Belfast
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Password was changed after the October breach was disclosed.
There's no need to change again as this breach was prior to that one.
Two-step authentication is also enabled.
Mark
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
Posts: 12251
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It’s not so much the need (or not) to change the password, more a need to ensure that when there is a breach, it’s spotted and reported in a timely fashion, and not over three years later. If 1 billion records are being sloughed off, you’d think that the bandwidth spike and logs would indicate something odd is going on, and you’d investigate.
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
Posts: 10691
Location: Bramsche
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That is the problem, because they sat on the information for years, they show their disdain for their users.
Most of the press seems to be calling for people to close their accounts.
My daughters and wife closed their accounts after the last fiasco - and for 2 of them it was their primary mail account.
I still have mine, purely because of Flikr, I never used the email address. But I'm seriously considering closing the account. I haven't posted anything new for a looong time.
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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Got an email for. yahoo today telling me to update my password.
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm
Posts: 17040
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'Sake. Even if you tell them to terminate your account they say it'll take 90 days to do it. That's chuffing appalling.
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
Posts: 12700
Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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One reason why I never use my real details for signing up to free things.
For online registration I use a fake name and my birthday is always the 1st of January.
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm
Posts: 5041
Location: London
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same - already hand 2FA set via my phone
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