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Tech giant admits to massive data breach

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LeonYLC
7 yrs ago

Tech giant Yahoo has come clean about the security breaches of around 1 billion user accounts between 2015 and 2016.

Yesterday, Yahoo sent an email to all account holders, confirming that user accounts had been breached, blaming a dodgy cookie for the malicious activity. 

The warning message read: "Based on the ongoing investigation, we believe a forged cookie may have been used in 2015 or 2016 to access your account".

Read more at ITWire 

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MICK
7 yrs ago

So much for 'give us your private details as they are safe'.

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KSS
7 yrs ago

Oh come on Mick even you are not that naive. ANYTHING anywhere on the internet can be traced even after you think your have deleted it. This is not a surprise. It is a risk we all take as soon as we connect.

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Libby
7 yrs ago

You can say that again! "Privacy" is gone forever and you just don't know who is lurking in the shadows. 

Computers are more trouble than their worth, ruin lives, a haven for paedophiles etc. Even us baby boomers have to keep up with what's going on around us or we're left behind. Thank goodness I was still working when I HAD to become familiar with PC's in our workplace or else leave!

We can consider ourselves "lucky" if we haven't been 'hacked' because the best way is to make a sentence for your password e.g. "I used to live in unit 5" will look like "Iutliu5"! Hackers will have a trying time to hack into it.

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