Yahoo Says Second Hack Affected More Than 1 Billion in 2013

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At SOFI, we still get a lot of spam from field inspectors whose emails have been hacked. Most of them do not even know that hackers have used their email to send spam. Yahoo has kept this secret for three years. So what else are they not telling you?

In the 2013 hack disclosed Wednesday, Yahoo said compromised user account information may have included names, e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. The company said it was notifying potentially affected users and had taken steps to secure their accounts.

Be sure to change your password. Maybe it is time to move to gmail.

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