All 3 Billion Yahoo Accounts Were Affected by 2013 Attack

You can add this information to the rest of the bad news that keeps coming this week and affects everyone. A failure of congress to enact proper cyber security laws, pass a decent and compassionate reform of health care, pass proper gun control laws that protect innocent civilians from slaughter at any kind of public gathering: and on and on. And the result of all this bad news is an overwhelming feeling of helplessness in the population at large. Something deep down that keeps fighting to rise to full consciousness that says "the hell with all of it" or "what's the use" . "We might as well throw up our hands and let the chips fall where they may.". How many protests can we attend? How many letters can we write to our congressmen? How many donations can we make to the right causes? And still nothing changes. No amount of outrage seems loud enough to be heard. Then the worst thing happens, All that frustration from a lack of results in our efforts to try to make things better begins to turn slowly into apathy. And then we are truly doomed.

Only in America where a CEO can exit with no liability but with hundreds of millions in compensation...

People are far too eager to shift everything to the internet. Most of our critical infrastructure can be attacked through the internet. Law enforcement is vulnerable to hackers. People expose their whole lives on social media, not realizing much of the information can be used to hack or blackmail them. Alarm companies are selling security and home automation vulnerable to hacking. Not only can the thieves open your door, they can watch you on your own surveillance systems, or even lick you in and turn up the has and turn out the poor light.. Many cars have their gas and brakes hackable. Planes have been shown to be hackable. Civilization lasted ten thousand years before the internet. What's the rush?

Yahoo hosts ATT.net email accounts. Nowhere has it been said if they were impacted by the incident.

Maybe AT&T and Yahoo's new owner Verizon would like to comment.

And I fully expect that Melissa Meyer’s multimillion severance had no contingency holdback pending the resolution of the hacking review. She was a disaster as CEO of this mess of a company, started downhill by Head Yahoo Jerry Wang.

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Mayor's windfall on Yahoo sale?

Our personal identifications are now obsolete. Most all companies that have our SS numbers share them with other companies. The breaches mean nothing. All thanks to the internet and those who abuse it.

And what did Yahoo do? Nothing but post some worthless FAQ's, tell people to change their passwords (after the horse had long been out of the barn), and give their CEO a huge bonus. Not even a phone line to contact them. I don't know which is worse, the inability of corporate America to protect private information, or the complete failure of government to do anything.

This explains so many things about my Flickr account password being impossible to remember, to reset, and to create.

Trump's response to this will shed light on whether or not he has a habit of colluding with Russian spies...