Yahoo mail hacked (Washington Post, Feb 2014)

[Dennis]

Yahoo has revealed that a number of users’ passwords and usernames were exposed to cyber-attackers who used malicious computer software to gain access to lists of Yahoo Mail credentials.

Cheers

Dennis

Link to article:
Washington Post article

[Zaps]

...Yet again.

Too many times to count.

[MortonH]

Yep. Happened to me about a year ago.

[brian nordstrom (As avatar)]

I must have got caught in the same wave last year as you Mort , a pain in the 'you know what' !!! .
Brian.

[Dennis]

Is the User ID and password for a Yahoo e-mail account the same as, or linked to Yahoo Groups for the various Yahoo Newsgroups? Or, are these different entities?

Cheers

Dennis

[doppler (Rick)]

I just use yahoo mail for my junk mail and spam so good luck to them.

[Lee]

Surely yahoo aren't keeping plaintext passwords anywhere?? Sounds like the hackers got a password hash file and went to work on it....

Might change my yahoo pw to another 30 char random string to be sure....

[alan meehan (Alan)]

Me too about a year ago ,don't use my yahoo acc any more just for junk
AL