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H Chicago <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:41:00 -0600
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I have not followed this whole thread, so apologies if this has been
posted, but I thought people might be interested in having  a better
understanding of the mechanism by which many Yahoo accounts have been
compromised.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/how-yahoo-allowed-hackers-to-hijack-my-neighbors-e-mail-account/
I'm sure plenty of account hijacks are due to phishing victims and
stolen databases, but clearly not all.
-h



On Thu, Feb 20, 2014, at 06:29 PM, Eckstine, Nate wrote:
> I would concur.  My yahoo account was quickly hacked a few years ago when
> I turned my firewall off briefly and accessed an AOL page with changing
> ads while I cooked dinner.

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