‘Hacking’ of Yahoo: What to do to protect you – CNET in Spanish

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Yahoo revealed on Thursday a cyber attack that threatened the accounts of 500 million users, and you could be among those affected. This is the cyber attack, the largest ever known, and it can affect much more than your email account.

then, we tell you how you can know if the hackers is made of your account information.

log in to your Yahoo account

This may sound obvious, but if you’re like many users, you may not use your Yahoo account as your primary e-mail. Yahoo has 1,000 million active users per month on all its services, and only 225 million active users of its Yahoo Mail, according to figures shared by the company to CNET in June.

For this reason, check the email that is associated to your Yahoo account. Yahoo has started to send notifications to the users, and if you’ve been affected by the hack, you will receive a message from Yahoo on that account associated.

Change your password

Yahoo recommends anyone who has not changed their password from 2014, do so now. The company says that the passwords that the hackers was stolen they are encrypted with a tool called bcrypt. This kind of encryption they can break with enough persistence, said Brett McDowell, executive director of the FIDO Alliance, a nonprofit organization that reviews the systems of income.

And this is especially true “when a hacker you can guess with relative accuracy what would be the password,” said McDowell. “Users of Yahoo who have weak passwords or obvious should take the precautionary measures recommended”.

Ask yourself: ‘have I used this password some place else?’

it Is a common habit to use the same password on different accounts. If this cyber attack leaves you in a lesson, it is that you do this is a very bad idea.

If you used your password of Yahoo on another account, change the password on that account also. The hackers that have your password can try to use it in different Web sites (such as banks, websites of health insurers) to try to access your accounts.

Delete old accounts that don’t use

While you’re reviewing what other accounts you have, also consider why you have these accounts. Are you still using that site for planning weddings five years after getting married? No, I don’t think so. So, delete that account.