There's no end to these stories. The internet was designed to trust and to share openly, not to distrust and to conceal. There's not much users can do, apparently, to protect themselves. Maybe
will fix the problem. In the meantime, get used to having your personal info scarfed and even used against you from time to time. Ignore all those "news" items about new data thefts. They're much the same as shouts about hurricane damage. Stuff happens.
On Aug 6, 2014, at 3:56 PM, "Gijzette Strickland gsstrickland@gmail.com [iPad]" <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Tim,I read an article about this in the NY Times today. I'm not sure they were stolen today. Here is a link to the article. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101896806
--GijzetteOn Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:51 PM, tim meidroth timmeidroth@gmail.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
timsomeone in another group breathlessly posted this message today (below)...anyone here know anything about it?On CBS news just now a Russian crime ring stole 1.2 billion passwords and,about 500 million e mail address they have no idea what websites were hacked its about 420 thousand websites,so change password today--
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