Last night Yahoo announced that it had been hacked and that one billion emails with passwords had been stolen.
The alleged omission and leakage of data was back in 2013, where, according to internetlivestats.com, about two and a half billion passwords were leaked, which is a third of all Internet users.
What is troubling is that there is nothing you can do about it. If you did not have double protection activated, then there is a high probability that your email and password are already with someone else.
The fact that every other person has the same password for other sites is worrisome, as it implies that a failure on Yahoo affects other sites as well, because hackers who have your email and password then have access to Facebook, Instagram and other popular sites that you used.
The only way to protect yourself if that can be said is to activate double protection everywhere you can. This means that when you log in from an unknown computer, you will receive an SMS with a six-digit number that you must enter in order to gain access to your email, even if you know the password. All those who had this type of protection, hackers could not do anything even if they had a password.
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