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Yahoo is so lame. I've been trying to close my email account with them for 6 months now. I get the confirmation page saying my account will close but it doesn't close. I'd be pissed if some how someone steals my financial information which was linked to my Yahoo email account.
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Not me. I don't have a yahoo email account. I rarely go to their site other than occasionally looking at something on yahoo finance.Brian -
Whats a yahoo account? Never used whatever they were offering.Comment
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I have 3 accounts and have never received a notice, but I'm assuming I'm one of them. I think there is only accounts for surveys and my utility bill that is so hard to log into that I have given up on.Comment
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I received the email that I was affected, they claim no financial information was stolen. I'm supposed to change my password and security questions. I'd like to switch to gmail but I have used this address for everything for years (except friends and family who use my good email address), it would be super inconvenient to change.Comment
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Originally posted by FLA View Post
If I were you I would get a gmail address and slowly switch everything over. I have no clue why anyone would still use Yahoo.Comment
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is there something inherently better about gmail? I do have a gmail email I never use, I prefer the yahoo interface (probably because I'm used to it)Comment
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If you want to close the account and they won't close, how about just deleting the emails and move on. I've abandoned many email accounts over the years. Each time I look for a job, I create a new email account. In fact, this forum's email account is created just for this forum.Originally posted by QuarterMillionMan View PostComment
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I'm still using it, but have not been notified that I was hacked. I think it's probably time to switch companies for email.
My other blog is Your Organized Friend.Comment
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Gmail was once hacked as well so the grass is not always greener on the other side.Comment
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It seems difficult to believe that nobody at Yahoo knew about these hacks months or years ago. Yet nothing was said & nothing done. what was Yahoo's internet security dept. doing? What are they, a bunch of dumb Yahoos?Comment
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This is a good recommendation. I'll start this weekend, literally got 1000's to delete but it will give me peace of mind, thank you.Originally posted by sv2007 View PostComment
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Also I did change the password multiple times after each closure when I'd go back after a month or so only to find it still active then change the password out of frustration finding it still open. Deleting emails, takes it one step further, ingenious, why didn't I think of that sooner.Comment
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My internet provider is Yahoo, but it's bundled with my phone, so I pay AT&T. I'm not sure how much information Yahoo would actually have.
They didn't seem to directly notify people--but when you go to log in there's a box on the bottom that you can click on to see the hack notice. But they only make you re-log in every so many weeks so I doubt people would notice it.
I still use my Yahoo email. My address is from the original company--Prodigy--and is tied to many many genealogy forums and message boards dating back to the 90s. I still will get emails from someone who saw a message about a family I'm working on so I hesitate to change it. And many of the boards are now archived so I can't update it.
The notice for the "current" hack is to tell people that they just found out they were hacked in 2013. Not really sure the point to tell anyone now.Comment
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Today I cancelled again and this is the screen I get. So I go back 90 days later and the account is still active. I would approx. that I've done this 4 times over the past 1 year. Good thing SV suggested deleting individual emails because in 90 days when I go back it'll probably still be open.
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