{"id":5404,"date":"2016-12-15T09:50:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T23:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2016-12-15T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T23:50:29","slug":"yahoo-hacked-again-a-lazy-1-billion-accounts-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/yahoo-hacked-again-a-lazy-1-billion-accounts-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo hacked again, a lazy 1 billion\u00a0accounts affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/yahoo-mail-dead.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The company disclosed today that it has discovered a breach of more than one billion user accounts that occurred in August 2013. The breach is believed to be separate and distinct from the theft of data from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/09\/22\/yahoo-confirms-state-sponsored-attacker-stole-personal-data-of-at-least-500-million-users\/\" target=\"_blank\">500 million accounts<\/a>\u00a0that Yahoo reported this September.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s like Yahoo were worried that they were being outdone in the race for <em>&#8220;shittest thing of\u00a02016&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, one billion [insert Dr. Evil GIF] accounts? What the hell Yahoo? Do you have\u00a0any accounts left to give passwords out for?<\/p>\n<p>If you have <em>ever<\/em> had a Yahoo account or\u00a0perhaps a Flickr or another affiliated service of theirs GO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD!<\/p>\n<p>And if you use that password repeatedly like a person begging to have their identity stolen go and change it everywhere else too! Then install a password manager.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/12\/14\/yahoo-discloses-hack-of-1-billion-accounts\/\">Yahoo discloses hack of 1 billion\u00a0accounts<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company disclosed today that it has discovered a breach of more than one billion user accounts that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}