Yahoo Email Security Under Fire - Recycled Old Company email addresses
If you have a Yahoo account you are not connected to 12 months, Yahoo has your email address (login) available to another person (the one who wants it.) Unless your old username is not everything new account holder receives, they also receive all emails that went to your email address.
In an interview with the weekly information, Tom Jenkins recounts his experience after obtaining an email address that has become available. "I knew these Yahoo ID were once the property of someone else, but I'm quite surprised by the types of emails I immediately started getting" The emails with sensitive personal information. Boost Service posts mobile of former Yahoo account holder, which included the accounts and pin numbers, e-mails from a Fidelity investment account, Facebook emails; Pandora account information, and more
This. raises identity theft concerns as Yahoo puts everything in the hands of the new account holder for example, if the new user wants to use the information they receive -.. nothing prevents He will continue to be delivered their inbox.
All Yahoo has done in response to this problem is to add a button "not my e-mail" (shown below.)
button does not address the problem of security, they created their system by launching reckless recycled email. WebProNews says: "According to Yahoo, only a small number of users complained to the email to other people, but again, those are likely to exploit these emails will let the company know to this? "
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