Depending on the news source you follow, either 200 million or 500 million Yahoo! accounts have been breached, so….
if you have an @yahoo.com email address, change your password
The accounts were actually stolen about 2 years ago, but it is assumed that it’s a nation state hack and under investigation by the FBI, so hush hush!
The theft may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.
Half of all users (you included!) that were surveyed or analyzed by Gartner, use the same password across all their accounts, so out of the half billion accounts compromised, I hackers, would try to use that password against other online services to see if they could get in. With 200-500 million accounts, you can bet they are going to run a program that automatically checks many online services (like bank websites) with the list of user names and passwords.
It’s a good idea to have multiple email accounts, especially when you think about what it takes to reset an online password.
