Yahoo Passwords hacked!

123456789101112

Done.

You'll probably find a secure password has more to do with variation in characters rather than number of characters though naturally there needs to be enough characters to allow for that variation...

This story was published July 12, so the news has cooled off a bit.

Also the site headline implies that these other email providers were hacked, and they weren't.

Yup,
I have had a yahoo email account since the late 1990s.
Recently I could not log into my account. (I tried and tried)
my password was not valid, I answered security questions like 13 years ago and had no idea what I said.
When I tried to get back in, there was not way I could. The system was completely crazy and made no sense
-Request new password from alternate email address (ok done)
- wait two days before trying to follow password recovery link (stupid but done)
- answer multiple security questions, ---get the answer wrong again and again... since it's been over a decade since I last answered the questions -- not done, but wait... you answered wrong too many times ****start process all over again.
this went on for months (I could never get ahold of anyone from yahoo ever!)
The other day I changed my password to Facebook ( I do this from time to time every year or so.)
then I got some message that led me to think the accounts were somehow connected.....
Turns out when I changed one password the other automatically changed!!!!!
GO FIGURE, can I really say I'm amazed that yahoo got hacked!!!!!!
If this were still going on I think the only way I could get back into the account was to see if this list were floating around -- hoping that I was on it

Yes, I heard that one too and LinkedIn notified members to change their passwords. If you are to create a password, make sure that it's not associated with your personal details or some simple random text or number series that are easily hacked. It's very important you create a very strong password combination.