If you use the same password for your email as you do for other accounts (such as social media or banking), it would be wise to change those passwords as well─and take this time to use a different password than you use for your email. Even if you didn’t receive a notice from Yahoo!, users of the email service should consider updating their passwords. Follow the steps below to help reduce the impact of this attack and avoid becoming a victim in the future: Yahoo! is taking a number of steps to help impacted users regain secure access to their accounts, but that doesn’t mean you should sit idly by and wait for the next attack to hit. The company has also stated that they’ve implemented additional measures to block attacks against their systems. In addition to alerting users via text message and resetting passwords on impacted accounts, Yahoo! has turned on two-factor authentication to allow users to re-secure their accounts-for the time being. Luckily, Yahoo! appears to be taking appropriate measures to secure affected user accounts. With 273 million accounts, Yahoo! mail is the second largest email provider in the world (behind Google’s Gmail) and a cyber attack is not something that should be taken lightly. There is no information from Yahoo! on whether or not the criminals were able to achieve this goal. Cybercriminals were likely after this information so that they could send additional emails from the hacked accounts to these unsuspecting victims, with the intent to spread malware or other malicious computer viruses. Yahoo! has stated that the hackers appear to have been seeking the names and email addresses from messages recently sent by the accounts that they hacked into. Those who have chosen to connect in this manner in the past may be at higher risk for hacking. They haven’t released information about what third-party this may have been, but anytime you choose to login to an app or website with your Yahoo! account, that database receives your email address and password. Yahoo! has instead suggested that it was an unnamed third-party database that cybercriminals were able to hack into in order to access a trove of usernames and passwords. We do know that there is no proof to imply a vulnerability in Yahoo! security processes at this time. Unfortunately, as this hack is still under investigation, the information available is limited. They also echoed a sentiment frequently found on this blog, that “security attacks are unfortunately becoming a more regular occurrence.” Below are some details about the latest Yahoo! cyber attack, as well as several measures you can take to help secure your email account. Yahoo also invalidated unencrypted security questions and answers so they cannot be used to access an account.Last week, Yahoo! announced on their blog that the email accounts for an unspecified number of users had been compromised by hackers. "The company required all users who had not changed their passwords since the time of the theft to do so. "It is important to note that, in connection with Yahoo's December 2016 announcement of the August 2013 theft, Yahoo took action to protect all accounts," the company said. In a separate statement, Yahoo said it took steps to rectify the data breach after it occurred. "The investigation indicates that the user account information that was stolen did not include passwords in clear text, payment card data, or bank account information," And The New York Times reported that hackers obtained names, birth dates, phone numbers, passwords, security questions and backup email addresses used to reset passwords.īut Oath, the Verizon Communications subsidiary that owns Yahoo, said in a statement that the hackers did not gain access to users' financial information. This time, however, the company is saying that every Yahoo email address fell victim to the data breach.
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