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2016 Postmortem

Pathwalker

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7. Yahoo let someone from Germany log into my account,

Reply to SharonAnn (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 17, 2016, 05:54 PM

Nov 2016

THEN they notified me. This was after DU was hacked. Changed my passwords on a lot of accounts that had information on Yahoo. Totally pissed at Yahoo. "Oops, our bad."

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GUYS: About that Election Day hacking... PLEASE BE ON ALERT. [View all] calimary Nov 2016 OP

PayPal phishing emails are legion for 15 plus years Grey Lemercier Nov 2016 #1

yeah Lithos Nov 2016 #2

Well, I never got one of those re: PayPal, til this morning. calimary Nov 2016 #3

your email has been turned out into the wild Grey Lemercier Nov 2016 #5

I got a PayPal notice too, but it was because my account was in reality linked to an expired card. haele Nov 2016 #4

About 10 hours after the DU hack I got an email from Google about my Gmail account SharonAnn Nov 2016 #6

Yahoo let someone from Germany log into my account, Pathwalker Nov 2016 #7