Yahoo Email Passwords/Addresses Stolen

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I tried to access my yahoo account 2 nights ago from my dumbphone and was told I had to log in from a real computer as suspicious activity was indicated on my account.

When I did get to my laptop I had to change passwords again but I'd found no messages in my sent folder which I had not sent myself, where as the last time I got hacked everybody in my address book was sent something.

I have so many passwords floating around in my head.
 
I would suggest LASTPASS for password management. Its free for a PC. It will generate long passwords and populate the userid and pw into websites. The data is encrypted/decrypted on your PC but stored on a cloud.

I use a password for LASTPASS itself and a Yubico if not my PC. So to get access to my passwords you would need my LASTPASS password and my home PC or my Yubico.

The Yubico (like a key) is clipped to my Mastiffs collar. Try and get it. (OK, not really, but I thought of it).
 
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Originally Posted By: Donald
I would suggest LASTPASS for password management. Its free for a PC. It will generate long passwords and populate the userid and pw into websites. The data is encrypted/decrypted on your PC but stored on a cloud. I use a password for LASTPASS itself and a Yubico if not my PC. So to get access to my passwords you would need my LASTPASS password and my home PC or my Yubico. The Yubico (like a key) is clipped to my Mastiffs collar. Try and get it. (OK, not really, but I thought of it).

Roboform does a great job too and is equally encrypted. It has an "Everywhere" version that allows syncing between all of your PCs and SmartPhones so that you always have the exact same passwords available no matter what machine you are on.
 
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Originally Posted By: Donald
I would suggest LASTPASS for password management. Its free for a PC. It will generate long passwords and populate the userid and pw into websites. The data is encrypted/decrypted on your PC but stored on a cloud. I use a password for LASTPASS itself and a Yubico if not my PC. So to get access to my passwords you would need my LASTPASS password and my home PC or my Yubico. The Yubico (like a key) is clipped to my Mastiffs collar. Try and get it. (OK, not really, but I thought of it).

Roboform does a great job too and is equally encrypted. It has an "Everywhere" version that allows syncing between all of your PCs and SmartPhones so that you always have the exact same passwords available no matter what machine you are on.


LASTPASS can do that also but at least on my Android phone it cannot populate them as nicely as it can on a PC. You pay for the version that can be used on smartphones. But if you have used LASTPASS to generate random passwords in the 20 char range, its not easy entering them on a smartphone manually if needed. And many of my passwords are 32 or even 50 char.
 
I had problems with Yahoo email a while back and I switched to Gmail. I am glad now that I had the problems which made me switch to Gmail because it is possible that literally millions of email accounts and email messages have been affected. Hopefully Yahoo still did not have my emails stored by this third party that was entrusted with security and did not get the job done. I closed out my old email account with Yahoo or at least I tried to close it out. Yahoo is so incompetent it is hard to say.

Thankfully I can't remember having shopped at Target for a very long time.

Companies and people better get serious about internet security. The criminals are serious.
 
I changed my Yahoo password though I wasn't prompted to do so. There was nothing strange in my SENT folder. I don't store much of my personal info there, and what was there I changed and made it meaningless. I hope they enjoy reading my SPAM mail because that's all I use Yahoo for.
 
Originally Posted By: Mystic
I had problems with Yahoo email a while back and I switched to Gmail. I am glad now that I had the problems which made me switch to Gmail because it is possible that literally millions of email accounts and email messages have been affected. Hopefully Yahoo still did not have my emails stored by this third party that was entrusted with security and did not get the job done. I closed out my old email account with Yahoo or at least I tried to close it out. Yahoo is so incompetent it is hard to say.

Thankfully I can't remember having shopped at Target for a very long time.

Companies and people better get serious about internet security. The criminals are serious.


Unfortunately the fraud for even Target is a very small % of total credit card transactions. Its cheaper to accept the fraud than to roll out credit cards and terminals that support a chip. Now the public outcry may be the thing that pushes the banks to take action.
 
Originally Posted By: Donald
I would suggest LASTPASS for password management. Its free for a PC. It will generate long passwords and populate the userid and pw into websites. The data is encrypted/decrypted on your PC but stored on a cloud.


IMO, better yet is KeePass - http://keepass.info/. It is truly free (as in "no cost" as well as in "freedom"), is open-source (Lastpass is not: who knows what is in that code? NSA, anyone?!) and cross-platform (Windows, Linux and Mac).
 
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