Yahoo investigating reported mass password breach

Fracking Yahoo Mail... wouldn't touch it with a 20ft pole, being it is the absolute worst for span and all other unwanted/unwelcome crap.  Since I deleted my one and only Yahoo email account ever, my spam quota has reduced by 99.99999%.   I only used my ISP provided email these days, and while I may get the occasional lottery win from Nigeria, I may see spam once in a very blue moon, if ever.

My wife has a yahoo acct but she says she only uses it to play the games they have. I'm kind of surprised it's still used at all. In all the tech sites I follow, I see update articles for dozens of email services, web and desktop, and I honestly can't remember the last time I saw one for Yahoo or anyone saying putting Yahoo above any other web email service.

I keep waiting for Google or someone to just buy Yahoo out. The only time I used it was for geocities and that had to be 10 years ago.

I use it for messenger.

DON"T REMIND ME! lol

lmao

It is my "throw Away" email account for all the places I don't want to give my secure email address.

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There are a lot of good reasons to use an email client instead of a webmail... privacy and spam among them.

It also appears that Yahoo is down this morning, probably to give it a proper cleaning.

Unfortunately, Mozilla very recently announced it was not going to devote time to develop Thunderbird.

Checked with sucuri and it says I'm good. Changed my pw anyway.

 Yahoo Mail is my only active mail mailbox. I can lo longer access my Windows mail account.

 I use it for everything and the only spam I get is mailings from places I have signed up for and this is the first time it's been hacked since 2007.

That said, what do some of you recommend if I was to get a secondary mailbox,or replace my primary one? It seems they all can be hacked eventually, given enough time.

I have an AOL box but haven't used it in years. I use YahooMessenger and aside from a few quirks, it's been working fine for me, along with YMail.

That's exactly what I say. I'd say use your ISP's if you think they do a good job with security. I'd say, "Just don't keep any financial/credit stuff on it." except that's next to impossible.

Using your own client is probably the best solution. Thunderbird is excellent, but just realize that it's not going to be developed by Mozilla.org anymore. 

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/free-email-clients-windows-7/

Another option that may help with security is to use a disposable email for everything non-critical: I've used http://mailinator.com/ in the past with no complaints.

Also, if you have to send sensitive information, breaking it into chunks and using different email services can be a good thing and so is encrypting.  I used to use PGP . . but don't anymore.

Yup

And all my relatives and friends joke and photo and youtube "you gotta see this its cute" emails.