YAHOO ACCOUNTS HACKED - HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO TO PROTECT YOURSELF

Over a billion accounts on popular mailing company Yahoo have been hacked . In a statement personally addressed to account users, Bob Lord, Chief Information Security Officer of the giant tech company disclosed that Yahoo recently discovered a data security issue that may involve users’ Yahoo account information. This is the 2nd breach Yahoo it is recording. Yahoo alerted users in September 2016 about a breach.

An unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with a broader set of user accounts. They have been unable to identify the intrusion associated with this theft. Information stolen include names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (using MD5) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. The stolen information did not include passwords in clear text, payment card data, or bank account information. Yahoo is taking some measures to ensure users are not affected but in the mean time here is what you can do as a security measure- Change your passwords and security questions and answers for any other accounts on which you used the same or similar information used for your Yahoo account. Review all of your accounts for suspicious activity. Be cautious of any unsolicited communications that ask for your personal information or refer you to a web page asking for personal information. Avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious emails. Yahoo also recommends using Yahoo Account Key, a simple authentication tool that eliminates the need to use a password on Yahoo altogether.

117 million LinkedIn emails and passwords just got posted online

Got a profile on LinkedIn? You just might need to reset your password. LinkedIn announced this morning that another data set from a hack suffered in 2012 which contains over 100 million LinkedIn members’ emails and passwords, has now been released.In 2012, hackers stole some 6.5 million encrypted passwords fro LinkedIn and posted them onto a Russian hacker forum. 

If you had a LinkedIn account since 2012 and you have not changed the password, you should be worried. I f the password has been used on other sites as well you should also be worried. But even if you don’t fall under any of these categories, it is advisable that you change it anyway not just on LinkedIn but on any other site where you use the same password.

LinkedIn in a statement on its website says it is taking immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of the accounts impacted, and we will contact those members to reset their passwords