https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/04/gmail-yahoo-email-password-hack-hold-security
The passwords and email addresses, which include some from Gmail, Yahoo and Russia’s mail.ru service, aren’t necessarily the keys to millions of email accounts. Rather, they had been taken from various smaller, less secure websites where people use their email addresses along with a password to log in.
People who use a different password for both their email account and, say, Target.com, won’t be affected. But those who tend to use the same password for multiple sites as well as their email should change their email password.
>>42764
Probably just an excuse to get other companies to start forcing people to use their phones as passwords like Facebook is doing now
>>42785
This. These breakins happen daily if not multiple times daily. Mobile authentication, especially through separate applications is an easy way to collect additional information on the enduser, as well as advertise to them more effectively. Some authentification services (google's authenticator is pretty okay, though not great, it's infinitely better than the tons and tons of dedicated authenticator apps that have access to everything on your phone like the steam authenticator, for example).
Anyway, it's generally a bad idea to use the same password on multiple sites anyway. Security will never be perfect but you can help yourself stay safe by using at a minimum three passwords.
>>42764
Das gay tho
>>42764
when you lost that number from the hot girl roomies from last night, maybe?