Thread: Yay-hoos?! (or, the fall of Yahoo!)

Does anyone still use Yahoo e-mail given the enormous security breach(es) in 2013 and 2014 (that were not disclosed until 2016)? Forged cookies allowed password-free access to 32,000,000 accounts (2015 & 16), and in 2013 1 BILLION accounts were hacked! CEO Marissa Mayer loses about $14M in bonus money over the oopsies, and their pending sale is discounted by about $350M due to their lax security.

I had an account that I let grow weeds well before these breaches after tiring of their atrocious spam handling. I'm curious if anyone else has also dropped out either before or since these widely-reported hacks.

Funny you mentioned that. Haven't seen a yahoo email address for years, until this week from a new client.

Sent from a moto x far far away...

Same here. I haven't seen e-mail from any Yahoo users in years. (FYI -- Verizon wants Yahoo for user marketing purposes and $4.8B is "chump change" for them supposedly.)

I use Yahoo all the time, it used to be buggy with the 2 step verification, but now it works fine. Other than that no issues.

Plenty of folks must be using Yahoo or Verizon would not be buying the company. As a techie, I'm just leary of a company that cannot keep intruders out and then hides the failures from their own CEO for over a year.

Been using yahoo for years. I was getting a ton of spam for a while but recently it has really slacked off.

It's my main email address. I use it for filling out web forms etc... They can hack it all they want. Nothing business, medical, or financial in there. I use my personal domain for those items.

Originally Posted by DoughBoy68

Been using yahoo for years. I was getting a ton of spam for a while but recently it has really slacked off.

I use Yahoo and the same thing - the spam was off the charts and suddenly it has dropped to almost nothing. My feeling was they let the spam go through until they got in sale mode and then tried to clean it up.

I had a Yahoo account that I used for things that I thought at the time were lesser importance. Things that weren't related to work/school, video game stuff etc. Back when hackers had a field day stealing certain game accounts because they could sell in the hundreds or sometimes thousands, someone stole not only my game account, but the Yahoo email address too.

I went through the steps to recover the video game account. I never was able to recover the Yahoo account. So I had to route everything relative to that to a different account, and haven't made one with them since. What good is an email client that will let someone hack your stuff, but make it impossible for you to recover your own account that you've had for years and correct the damage? I'd say that was probably around 2008-ish. So I knew well in advance of that their security wasn't lax, it just didn't exist.

Originally Posted by Marshal

I had a Yahoo account that I used for things that I thought at the time were lesser importance. Things that weren't related to work/school, video game stuff etc.

Exactly the same reasons for which I used my Yahoo e-mail account. I wasn't too worried about getting spammed at this one address and preferred to hand it out over my primary personal e-mail address.

I believe I gave up my account about the same time as you did, Marshal, if not a few years sooner. Whenever it was they changed the whole look of their sites and e-mail was when I bowed out. This was about the time I was also just getting far too much spam to bother wading through.