State sponsored actor hacks a half a billion email accounts ! by 1kiki

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State sponsored actor hacks a half a billion email accounts !

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UPDATED: Sunday, October 9, 2016 09:09
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Saturday, October 8, 2016 1:56 AM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/22/technology/yahoo-data-breach/
Yahoo says 500 million accounts stolen
The company said it believes a "state-sponsored actor" was behind the data breach, meaning an individual acting on behalf of a government. The breach is said to have occurred in late 2014.
A large-scale data breach was first rumored in August when a hacker who goes by the name of "Peace" claimed to be selling data from 200 million Yahoo users online. The same hacker has previously claimed to sell stolen accounts from LinkedIn (LNKD, Tech30) and MySpace.
"The FBI is aware of the intrusion and investigating the matter," an FBI spokesperson said. "We take these types of breaches very seriously and will determine how this occurred and who is responsible. We will continue to work with the private sector and share information so they can safeguard their systems against the actions of persistent cyber criminals."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/09/22/report-yahoo-may-confirm
-massive-data-breach/90824934/
500 million Yahoo accounts breached
Information from at least 500 million Yahoo accounts was stolen from the company in 2014, the company said Thursday, indicating it believes a state-sponsored actor was behind the hack.Even in an Internet-dependent population accustomed to the regular occurrence of massive data breaches, the size of this one — thought to be the largest ever in terms of user accounts — is attention-grabbing. And the possibility that another country could be behind the attack adds to the shock factor. The FBI said it was aware of the intrusion and is investigating the matter

https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-500-million-accounts-hacked-data-breac
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Yahoo hit in worst hack ever, 500 million accounts swiped
It called the hackers a "state-sponsored actor," though it didn't identify a country behind the breach.

yahoo did it at the request of the US government

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Saturday, October 8, 2016 5:59 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

For a moment, I thought you were posting about our current favorite "bad guy" Putin.

Move over, Saddam and Qaddafi! There's a new target in town!

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I think it's time you disabused yourself of that pleasant little fairy tale about our fearless leaders being some sort of surrogate daddy or mommy, laying awake at night thinking about how to protect the kids. HA! In reality, they're thinking about who to sell them to so that they can get a few more shekels in their pockets.

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Sunday, October 9, 2016 1:20 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Oh, but it's the US. That means it doesn't count!

Yanno that whole thing about seeing the mote in your brother's eye but not seeing the log in you own ...

THANKS Jesus! For showing me that people are just as stupid, biased, hate-filled and hypocritical now as they were then.

Let me just point out that the author left out vital relevant facts in the opinion piece. Doing that is known as cherry-picking. And whether you do that in the news, in discussion, in debate or in opinion, when you distort the facts, you've changed the nature of your communication into propaganda. But WE don't have any of THAT in the US, do we?!

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Sunday, October 9, 2016 9:09 AM

THGRRI

This is great. We are going to have so much fun in this thread!!! Or is this were you SIG and 1kiki went to lick your wounds and I am intruding???

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