So people might have heard about Yahoo Mail getting hacked around 2013 and a whole bunch of addresses getting compromised? Well it turns out that ALL of them got compromised. If you still have Yahoo, time to go to gmail.
This seems political...
Not really. I'd say it's a friendly warning to change your email.
I wouldn't call it 'worse than expected.' Just worse than they admitted to for four years.
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Speaking as a gmail user, I'd remind folks that gmail's also been hacked before and it probably was worse than reported simply because that's just how corporations behave.
You want to be safe from invasiveness and hacking on the Internet? The only guaranteed way to do that is don't use the Internet. I'm not being hyperbolic. Pretty much every site has, is, or will be hacked at some point. Most people knowingly take the risks, or unknowingly believe they are safe. And even then you're not safe from hacking risks, because of hackers being able to hack credit card and personal information from stores, employers' files, and financial companies (see: the Equifax hack that basically affected pretty much everyone who has credit, whether you think it affected you or not). The third party my employer (one of the largest employers in the city) uses to store W-2s got hacked this year--and the employer gave no one any choice in switching to the digital storage system. The only way to have been protected from that would be to not work for that employer (or pretty much any employer who issues W-2s). No one is safe. This is the world we live in.
At any rate, I recall during the yahoo hack (my dad was affected) everyone was encouraged to change their passwords back then and improve security (2 step verification etc.). That was 4 years ago. Hopefully in the last 4 years people got around to changing their credentials safely.
Yup, every Yahoo user had to change their password and jump through other security hoops.