Facebook, Yahoo Curb Identity Theft with New Email Ownership Header

  • 25 October 2014
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by Michael Mimoso/ Posted on 10/25/2014
 
Yahoo’s decision in June 2013 to reset accounts that had been dormant for 12 months and make them available to other users raised a number of security and privacy red flags. It was feared that the potential for identity theft would grow given that if an old Yahoo account was linked to another online service, the new user would need only request a password reset to gain access.
Yahoo promised to put mitigations in place to lessen that fear, and pointed out that fewer than 10 percent of inactive IDs were tied to Yahoo email accounts.
Facebook, for one, wanted an extra measure of assurance.
 
 
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