Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.

Yahoo will expire and REUSE old e-mail accounts... account hijacking threat

  • 19-09-2013 05:33PM
    #1
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭


    The guys from the "Security Now" podcast ( Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson ) were giving out about Yahoo's idiotic decision to close e-mail accounts
    which are inactive for more than a year. ( no problem there )

    But that those e-mail account names will be recycled, and you can pay a couple of quid to be notified when one you want becomes available.

    So you are able to subscribe to the expiry of specific e-mail addresses, and if the user failed to pay attention, you get ownership/control of that e-mail account.

    You might be able to request password resets to sites they subscribed to via their old e-mail address then hijack other accounts of theirs.

    All sounds like a completely disastrous idea to me.

    I made sure to login to my old and nearly abandoned Yahoo account just in case, and made sure I've no sites of value registered to that account.

    regards,
    CD
    Tagged:


Advertisement