From my reading and researching on the Yahoo breach - they had two of them - the most recent one is supposedly possibly impacting over 1 Billion (yes, that is a B as Norton message I got today said).
It is reported that beyond the hack announced earlier this fall (which actually is a hack that happened in 2013 and Yahoo had not been aware of it). It supposedly impacted about 500 million users -
The new one is related to a trogan that has been left on the Yahoo servers and running since 2013, and fake cookies collecting information.
The most recent one potentially impacts all of Yahoo's services, although Yahoo has indicated that with any paid services that used a credit card or banking payment were not compromised as they don't store the banking/credit information.
But it certainly is a major breach. Companies like Norton are using it as an opportunity to promote identy protection software and services, and many insurance companies already sell these as add - ons.
More money - I remember when the hack of some health care services in my area, and the hack on Student loans occurred, they paid out a small amount on a small claims settlement, and for those who could prove financial loss due to the compromise, they received more. And in each of these, they provided a year of identity protection services, as well as free checks of our credit ratings - by the way - Credit Karma is available in Canada now. I learned that twice in two years about 10 years ago, someone had attempted to get credit through a local appliance company that I never dealt with, so do check your credit report regularly. You may be surprised what you find, as I was. And it is a pain to get these cleared, as you have to work through the company that filed the information first.
I have one remaining question though. In the article, one of the recommendations was close your Yahoo email address totally - is that an option for us as Rogers customers because you tie our user name to the Yahoo account.
I have been working at getting all my contact information off that account, but in many cases, companies, including Rogers don't make it easy to get that yahoo Roger's account out of the user name field - it requires back end work of the database, that many companies I have run into are reluctant to. In my case, if these were paid services, I just threatened to cancel, but didn't tell them that I would just reopen it again under a new user name and email.
I have had mine for over 15 years, so it is proving to not be an easy task, as well as to switch my secondary accounts too.
Bruce
RogersPrasana
