{"id":9036,"date":"2016-09-22T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/yahoo-reveals-massive-data-breach-internet-fixates-on-fantasy-football\/"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T21:16:00","slug":"yahoo-reveals-massive-data-breach-internet-fixates-on-fantasy-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/yahoo-reveals-massive-data-breach-internet-fixates-on-fantasy-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Reveals Massive Data Breach; Internet Fixates On Fantasy Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/09\/22\/495060936\/yahoo-reveals-massive-data-breach-internet-fixates-on-fantasy-football?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Alina Selyukh<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/09\/22\/495060936\/yahoo-reveals-massive-data-breach-internet-fixates-on-fantasy-football?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/09\/22\/ap_266822861149-1a9c0d15088430ab94655f785fc8105e11f33cb5-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"A laptop screen displays the new Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy contest during a product launch in 2015.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>Eric Risberg\/AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yahoo <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/09\/22\/495056961\/yahoo-inc-confirms-data-from-at-least-500-million-users-was-stolen\">has revealed that it suffered<\/a> a massive cyber breach in late 2014, which the company believes resulted in theft of information about the accounts of at least 500 million users.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet responded in stride \u2014 as it has to all recent Yahoo-related news \u2014 with the regular tide of jokes about Yahoo&#8217;s dinosaur status.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Me from 2004 is in a panic <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DpykfjUjVI\">https:\/\/t.co\/DpykfjUjVI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WASHED MONEY (@old__slang) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/old__slang\/status\/779036869501722624\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yahoo has 500M users? ??? That&#8217;s more shocking than the data breach. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fQ2h5CkEn9\">https:\/\/t.co\/fQ2h5CkEn9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tiffany Gimbel (@riskyfizz) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/riskyfizz\/status\/779033147367313408\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the perfect crime, we now know what everyone&#8217;s username, password and flash game preferences were in 1999 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NWOEAaLvXN\">https:\/\/t.co\/NWOEAaLvXN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill P (@Bill_TPA) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bill_TPA\/status\/779029846638735360\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>But the reactions, spreading fast through Twitter, also revealed which Yahoo asset is most valuable to this social media demographic: fantasy sports.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luckily 499 million are accounts people just made for their office fantasy league <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zWZ4eQJkMN\">https:\/\/t.co\/zWZ4eQJkMN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bobby Big Wheel (@BobbyBigWheel) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobbyBigWheel\/status\/779029457055145984\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dang. I wasn&#8217;t worried about this Yahoo breach until I just realized I have a Yahoo account for fantasy football <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0WIaspziF9\">https:\/\/t.co\/0WIaspziF9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarah Rabil (@srabil) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/srabil\/status\/779028178803261440\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>OK, here are some facts.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo is an Internet giant, with more than 1 billion monthly active users. It sprawls through a variety of services, including blogging site Tumblr, photo site Flickr and a series of themed sites like Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports, which includes fantasy sports.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, it&#8217;s the wildly popular digital expression of fandom \u2014 and a multibillion-dollar <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/11\/25\/457279313\/skill-or-chance-question-looms-over-fantasy-sports-industry\">industry<\/a> \u2014 where people draft virtual teams of actual players and compete based on the players&#8217; success in real games. Yahoo is one of several places to play fantasy sports, and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/fantasy\/\">its offerings<\/a> include football, baseball, basketball, hockey, car racing and golf.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hopefully whoever hacked into my Yahoo account had better luck with my fantasy football team than I did.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Goldich (@MattGoldich) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattGoldich\/status\/779037226810376196\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At least you will have the Yahoo security breach to blame for your crappy fantasy football season<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Sickler (@nasickler) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nasickler\/status\/779041777198194688\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hackers can have all my yahoo info they want, but if they change my fantasy football lineup it&#8217;s war<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Naes Tteweh (@FunnyFarmNFL) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FunnyFarmNFL\/status\/779042437821964288\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of course, this is all fun and games \u2014 perhaps a reflection of the growing familiarity of this plot, a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/tags\/128362298\/hacking\">constant presence<\/a> of hacks in the news.<\/p>\n<p>But this breach is one of the largest we&#8217;ve seen revealed, and it is of a service that for many users may interlink with their entire digital presence.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/kb\/account\/SLN27925.html?impressions=true\">Yahoo says<\/a> a &#8220;state-sponsored actor&#8221; \u2014 as in, a foreign government hacker \u2014 got into Yahoo&#8217;s network and stole information that &#8220;may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords.&#8221; All this took place in late 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo says it is notifying all the affected users and taking other steps to beef up security to block any authorized access to any accounts. But also: &#8220;We are recommending that all users who haven&#8217;t changed their passwords since 2014 do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even if there was good timing to reveal a big hack, for Yahoo this wouldn&#8217;t be it.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet company is on the verge of closing a $4.8 billion merger with Verizon. The telecom giant says it &#8220;will evaluate&#8221; the ongoing investigation and currently has &#8220;limited information and understanding of the impact&#8221; as Yahoo only informed Verizon of the security incident &#8220;within the last two days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">we can&#8217;t have nice things or even yahoo <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J0Qod9DEzc\">https:\/\/t.co\/J0Qod9DEzc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Travis (@travismartini) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/travismartini\/status\/779032828981813248\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/09\/22\/495060936\/yahoo-reveals-massive-data-breach-internet-fixates-on-fantasy-football?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Yahoo Reveals Massive Data Breach; Internet Fixates On Fantasy Football\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/09\/22\/495060936\/yahoo-reveals-massive-data-breach-internet-fixates-on-fantasy-football?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/alltechconsidered\/2016\/09\/22\/495060936\/yahoo-reveals-massive-data-breach-internet-fixates-on-fantasy-football?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/09\/22\/ap_266822861149-1a9c0d15088430ab94655f785fc8105e11f33cb5-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"A laptop screen displays the new Yahoo Sports Daily Fantasy contest during a product launch in 2015.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>Eric Risberg\/AP<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yahoo <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/09\/22\/495056961\/yahoo-inc-confirms-data-from-at-least-500-million-users-was-stolen\">has revealed that it suffered<\/a> a massive cyber breach in late 2014, which the company believes resulted in theft of information about the accounts of at least 500 million users.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet responded in stride \u2014 as it has to all recent Yahoo-related news \u2014 with the regular tide of jokes about Yahoo&#8217;s dinosaur status.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Me from 2004 is in a panic <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DpykfjUjVI\">https:\/\/t.co\/DpykfjUjVI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WASHED MONEY (@old__slang) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/old__slang\/status\/779036869501722624\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yahoo has 500M users? ??? That&#8217;s more shocking than the data breach. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fQ2h5CkEn9\">https:\/\/t.co\/fQ2h5CkEn9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tiffany Gimbel (@riskyfizz) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/riskyfizz\/status\/779033147367313408\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">the perfect crime, we now know what everyone&#8217;s username, password and flash game preferences were in 1999 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NWOEAaLvXN\">https:\/\/t.co\/NWOEAaLvXN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill P (@Bill_TPA) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bill_TPA\/status\/779029846638735360\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>But the reactions, spreading fast through Twitter, also revealed which Yahoo asset is most valuable to this social media demographic: fantasy sports.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Luckily 499 million are accounts people just made for their office fantasy league <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zWZ4eQJkMN\">https:\/\/t.co\/zWZ4eQJkMN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bobby Big Wheel (@BobbyBigWheel) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobbyBigWheel\/status\/779029457055145984\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dang. I wasn&#8217;t worried about this Yahoo breach until I just realized I have a Yahoo account for fantasy football <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0WIaspziF9\">https:\/\/t.co\/0WIaspziF9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarah Rabil (@srabil) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/srabil\/status\/779028178803261440\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>OK, here are some facts.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo is an Internet giant, with more than 1 billion monthly active users. It sprawls through a variety of services, including blogging site Tumblr, photo site Flickr and a series of themed sites like Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports, which includes fantasy sports.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, it&#8217;s the wildly popular digital expression of fandom \u2014 and a multibillion-dollar <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/11\/25\/457279313\/skill-or-chance-question-looms-over-fantasy-sports-industry\">industry<\/a> \u2014 where people draft virtual teams of actual players and compete based on the players&#8217; success in real games. Yahoo is one of several places to play fantasy sports, and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/fantasy\/\">its offerings<\/a> include football, baseball, basketball, hockey, car racing and golf.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hopefully whoever hacked into my Yahoo account had better luck with my fantasy football team than I did.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Goldich (@MattGoldich) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattGoldich\/status\/779037226810376196\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At least you will have the Yahoo security breach to blame for your crappy fantasy football season<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nick Sickler (@nasickler) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nasickler\/status\/779041777198194688\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hackers can have all my yahoo info they want, but if they change my fantasy football lineup it&#8217;s war<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Naes Tteweh (@FunnyFarmNFL) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FunnyFarmNFL\/status\/779042437821964288\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Of course, this is all fun and games \u2014 perhaps a reflection of the growing familiarity of this plot, a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/tags\/128362298\/hacking\">constant presence<\/a> of hacks in the news.<\/p>\n<p>But this breach is one of the largest we&#8217;ve seen revealed, and it is of a service that for many users may interlink with their entire digital presence.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/kb\/account\/SLN27925.html?impressions=true\">Yahoo says<\/a> a &#8220;state-sponsored actor&#8221; \u2014 as in, a foreign government hacker \u2014 got into Yahoo&#8217;s network and stole information that &#8220;may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords.&#8221; All this took place in late 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo says it is notifying all the affected users and taking other steps to beef up security to block any authorized access to any accounts. But also: &#8220;We are recommending that all users who haven&#8217;t changed their passwords since 2014 do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even if there was good timing to reveal a big hack, for Yahoo this wouldn&#8217;t be it.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet company is on the verge of closing a $4.8 billion merger with Verizon. The telecom giant says it &#8220;will evaluate&#8221; the ongoing investigation and currently has &#8220;limited information and understanding of the impact&#8221; as Yahoo only informed Verizon of the security incident &#8220;within the last two days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">we can&#8217;t have nice things or even yahoo <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J0Qod9DEzc\">https:\/\/t.co\/J0Qod9DEzc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Travis (@travismartini) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/travismartini\/status\/779032828981813248\">September 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}