1 Billion Yahoo Accounts Compromised

[Aska]

I will admit I am one of the few who still use Yahoo, mostly because I can use my real name as an email address without having a billion numbers added on an email address. That's the only reason why I have stuck with it for this long but I guess this is the final straw.

[Stocking Anarchy]

I basically only use Yahoo when I am signing up for websites that I know are going to most likely sell my info to third parties. Like Curse, Gamer launch, pyramid scams, you know the basic stuff.

[Sci_Girl]

I have used it because I could sign up on the firdt try without giving my phone number. I don't know of other emails that do not ask for phone numbers.

[j03]

Another interesting read from months ago: (you need an account to see links)

Can't deny there is no relation here.

[Byte]

Mailinator is a great site for registering for things without a number and lengthy registration process.

[kittyray]

Yahoo has been hacked so many times, they just usually don't release it to the press. Also what are people giving yahoo their financial information for? A free email service and a sub-par search engine has no need for your bank account information... People just set themselves up now days.

I pay for Flickr Pro, for what it's worth, even though I probably should have canceled when they did the massive overhaul because I kind of stopped using the site. But it's easy to forget about, I guess.