{"id":7534,"date":"2013-06-19T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7534"},"modified":"2013-06-20T07:44:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T12:44:39","slug":"recycled-yahoo-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/19\/recycled-yahoo-ids\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycled Yahoo! IDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yahoo.tumblr.com\/post\/52805929240\/yourname-yahoo-com-can-be-yours\">Jay Rossiter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/yahoo.tumblr.com\/post\/52805929240\/yourname-yahoo-com-can-be-yours\"><p>So, how are we making these Yahoo! IDs available? We&rsquo;re freeing up IDs, that have been inactive for at least 12 months, by resetting them and giving them a fresh start. In mid July, anyone can have a shot at scoring the Yahoo! ID they want.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisblizzard\/status\/347448020914294784\">Christopher Blizzard<\/a>, who notes that this could cause security problems. If you haven&rsquo;t recently logged into your Yahoo account and you had listed your Yahoo e-mail address as the contact info for another site or company, any password reset e-mails will go to the new owner of your Yahoo address.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2013-06-20): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2002\/07\/yahoo_mail.html\">Manton Reece<\/a> in 2002 (via <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.app.net\/cparnot\/post\/6924467\">Charles Parnot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.manton.org\/2002\/07\/yahoo_mail.html\"><p>Late yesterday I logged into Yahoo Mail and almost dropped to the floor in shock. Instead of seeing my email, a message stared back at me stating that I had not logged in for at least 4 months. My account was disabled and <b>all my mail was deleted<\/b>! Unbelievable. I regularly log into other sections of Yahoo (the calendar, for example), and it never occurred to me that they would pull something like this on their customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Rossiter: So, how are we making these Yahoo! IDs available? We&rsquo;re freeing up IDs, that have been inactive for at least 12 months, by resetting them and giving them a fresh start. In mid July, anyone can have a shot at scoring the Yahoo! ID they want. Via Christopher Blizzard, who notes that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,459],"class_list":["post-7534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-security","tag-yahoo"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7535,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534\/revisions\/7535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}