Gadgetory

so by now you've probably already heard that 500 million of you yahoo users need to change your password right now because you've been hacked according to Yahoo by a state-sponsored actor and this was done two years ago no one nowhere seems to be asking or answering the painfully obvious question why are we only hearing about this now two days ago yahoo released an unassuming bulletin entitled an important message about yahoo user security in it they revealed that a massive data breach had taken place in 2014 a hack that contained compromising information of a half a billion of Yahoo's users yahoo says that the culprit behind this crime is quote a state-sponsored actor a quote state-sponsored actor means that Yahoo is accusing some government we don't know who of hacking their information now it should be said that bcrypt is a very strong encryption method so passwords may be safe although that's not much of a comfort I'm sure to yahoo users so why why only tell us now did you only find out about this recently and if so that says a lot about your security or did you know about it and for some nefarious reason decided not to tell us and only now well that's a good question because let me tell you that private information your private information has been on the black market to be bought and sold for nefarious purposes that should be a concern you should be upset it's pretty upsetting to me so when this happens and you don't explain why you don't answer an obvious question people like me have to speculate so I'm going to speculate what has happened recently well Yahoo is negotiating a deal with verizon to sell to verizon which is really only or Yahoo's only exit that's their only big play right now years ago what four years ago now however long it was Marissa Meyer took over a CEO of Yahoo it was a hope there was a big hope that she could innovate do some product innovation and really revolutionize the company to come back to its former glory days that hasn't happened so much so the only real play now is to sell big to sell to a big player like Verizon so if i was working for horizon and i was an industrial espionage or I was a lawyer I was an operative for verizon all these big company have operatives like this I would leak this information after I know it just before the final sale to affect the sale to bring that cost down to have any evidence to that fact no but yahoo has not provided us any other information so we got to speculate we got to answer it because users like you are obviously going to ask that question I'm asking that question and I read the article I read the the PR the press release that Yahoo put out nothing not even a boo about it so is that it I think that probably has something to do with it let me know what you think in the comments below but before we go we should state the obvious that you need to change your password and you need to change them now and if you're one of the fifty nine percent of the people in the world that use the same password for all your accounts across platforms I'm sure many of you geeks are like that but if you are change all your passwords change them now I think it's safe to say that pretty much everyone hates day-to-day admin work that's why our beloved sponsor freshbooks has made it ridiculously easy to use their cloud accounting software whether you need easy invoicing online payments or time tracking fresh book has fantastic solutions for you you can even use your android device to take a snap of your receipts and have FreshBooks manager expenses automatically for a 30-day unrestricted free trial with no credit card required just go to FreshBooks calm forward slash android and enter android authority in the how did you hear about a section that's FreshBooks calm forward slash android Oh