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Some security experts go as far as recommending you create random, unique answers to security questions like, "Where was your mother born?" since, often, that information is easy to uncover. Security questions are often used to verify identity and gain account access, without the help of email verification. It's a headache, but doing so could save you a huge inconvenience in the future. And if you're unsure, change them anyway. If you used the same security questions for other sites or services, change those, too. Since the hack exposed security questions that were not encrypted, change them. Change your security questions and answers - everywhere Yahoo has started sending out notifications to users, and you should be receiving one at that account if you were affected by the data breach.ĭon't let them. So check the email affiliated with your Yahoo account if you haven't already. Yahoo has 1 billion monthly active users on its services overall and just 225 million monthly active users for its Yahoo Mail service, according to figures the company gave CNET in June. This might sound obvious, but if you're like a lot of people, you might not use Yahoo Mail as your primary email account. Here's what you can do now to protect yourself. The hack exposed names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, encrypted passwords and unencrypted security questions. On Tuesday, Yahoo updated that number to all 3 billion accounts its services.
In December, the company revealed yet another hack, this time affecting a record 1 billion accounts. In September 2016, Yahoo revealed a hack that compromised 500 million user accounts.
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