500 Million Hacked Yahoo Accounts Are A Phishing Paradise. Warn Your Users!

That's right, 500 Million Hacked Yahoo Accounts. This is an old hack, but Yahoo is now providing more information about the hack. Thanks to our friends at knowbe4.com for alerting us about this issue, and providing some very direct commentary about how this has been handled.

We strongly encourage you to notify your employees, since many of them may have had or currently do have Yahoo personal email accounts. If you are a regulated industry, such as a healthcare, notify your executive and management teams immediately. More importantly, if you've ever utilized personal Yahoo accounts for business communication we strongly suggest you stop what you are doing and follow the steps outlined in these articles right away.

We keep saying it is a scary world out there, because it is! The ongoing increase in cybercrime is mind numbing. You have to be vigilant and be mindful of the steps you are taking to secure your systems, and more importantly EDUCATE your staff. The more they are educated and take this seriously the better off your team will be.

If you are an IT Company customer, and you are a subscriber to our compliance services, we strongly recommend you reach out to your vCIO (vCIO@theitco.net) and setup a time to walk through some of the various tools, checklists and questions regarding security. Ask what you should be doing that you are not doing, have us perform a SWOT analysis with you on your IT Systems and specifically your IT security AND setup a time for us to regularly address your staff for education on security awareness.

If you are not subscribing to our compliance services we strongly recommend you learn more about why you should, and how.

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September 23rd, 2016 |Categories: Yahoo, OCR, knowbe4.come, Healthcare, Security, HIPAA, ITSecurity, Hacking, Compliance, HHS

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