Post by kas on Feb 26, 2019 18:00:31 GMT -5
UPDATE: Yahoo is secure again and has had many updates since this 2019 post. Thank you.
Yahoo has pushed for its users to go to the new Yahoo Mail but there are a lot of problems with it including security risks. I have a personal mail at Yahoo and tried out the new one only to find out how much was not working as well as not having things implemented that I loved about the previous version of Yahoo Mail (now called Classic in 2019). When I went back to Yahoo Classic some very important parts of the interface was no longer working. I had no choice but to go back to the Yahoo new version of the email. I have told other people to hold on before going to the new Yahoo mail as long as it is a choice (they aren't forcing yet but just annoying you into upgrading to the latest version so far). I would say it is best to wait until there are no longer any serious concerns listed here: yahoo.uservoice.com/forums/600772-new-mail
As it is, I saw this commentary by one security guy which concerns me. Even though it is a few months ago there is no indication that Yahoo has addressed that one yet:
hwalter2001us commented · August 26, 2018 12:58 PM ·
Don't waste your time and energy telling yahoo they have a security problem, Yahoo is like the 3 monkeys (or is it the 3 stooges?)... well in either case ..... yahoo doesn't give a rat's tail about any security problems. They would rather spend their time making their products look like Google (the sincerest form of flattery is imitation).
In 2012 Yahoo was made aware of a security issue - their "fix-it" advise... change your password!
No changes made on their end. Over 400,000 accounts got hacked & I was one of those 400,000. I wrote emails to Yahoo, posted on Facebook, I wrote on yahoo's support pages so many times - I bothered them so much they closed my account. Too funny, like the little Dutch Boy, rather than plug the hole in the dam, Yahoo's answer was to plug their ears with cotton so as not to hear the water as it was bursting through the dam.
Repeat the above paragraph and replace the year 2012 with the year 2013, and again repeat the above paragraph for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016 and this is the year that Congress finally got involved.
By October 2017 yahoo finally publically admits that ALL 3 billion of yahoo user accounts have been hacked and victims of id thieves. ALL, EVERYONE that has or had a yahoo account their personal info was being sold on the dark-web.
1) The Senate Commerce Committee had to subpoena (ex yahoo)CEO Mayer and compel her to appear and testify before she would admit any wrongdoing and 2) If it had not been for Verizon going over-the-books (figure of speech) Yahoo user info would still be available for sale on the darknet.
So my advice is to start writing your Congressman/woman and letting them know that Yahoo is at it again because Yahoo didn't listen to its users back in 2010 (the first email I sent to Yahoo about hacking my mail account) what the **** makes you think Yahoo is going to listen to any user now? Just because Verizon is at the helm?? Remember Verizon are the ppl that willing gave all our info to the NSA (guess the Boston marathon bomber, the under-wear bomber etc. were not Verizon customers).
Don't waste your time and energy telling yahoo they have a security problem, Yahoo is like the 3 monkeys (or is it the 3 stooges?)... well in either case ..... yahoo doesn't give a rat's tail about any security problems. They would rather spend their time making their products look like Google (the sincerest form of flattery is imitation).
In 2012 Yahoo was made aware of a security issue - their "fix-it" advise... change your password!
No changes made on their end. Over 400,000 accounts got hacked & I was one of those 400,000. I wrote emails to Yahoo, posted on Facebook, I wrote on yahoo's support pages so many times - I bothered them so much they closed my account. Too funny, like the little Dutch Boy, rather than plug the hole in the dam, Yahoo's answer was to plug their ears with cotton so as not to hear the water as it was bursting through the dam.
Repeat the above paragraph and replace the year 2012 with the year 2013, and again repeat the above paragraph for the years 2014, 2015, and 2016 and this is the year that Congress finally got involved.
By October 2017 yahoo finally publically admits that ALL 3 billion of yahoo user accounts have been hacked and victims of id thieves. ALL, EVERYONE that has or had a yahoo account their personal info was being sold on the dark-web.
1) The Senate Commerce Committee had to subpoena (ex yahoo)CEO Mayer and compel her to appear and testify before she would admit any wrongdoing and 2) If it had not been for Verizon going over-the-books (figure of speech) Yahoo user info would still be available for sale on the darknet.
So my advice is to start writing your Congressman/woman and letting them know that Yahoo is at it again because Yahoo didn't listen to its users back in 2010 (the first email I sent to Yahoo about hacking my mail account) what the **** makes you think Yahoo is going to listen to any user now? Just because Verizon is at the helm?? Remember Verizon are the ppl that willing gave all our info to the NSA (guess the Boston marathon bomber, the under-wear bomber etc. were not Verizon customers).
yahoo.uservoice.com/forums/600772-new-mail/suggestions/35079196-major-security-threat-on-mail-yahoo-com