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angussf
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angussf

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AOL Security breach, AOL says "change passwords AND security answer"

Seen this morning:
AOL Mail accounts breached, users advised to change passwords | Naked Security
»nakedsecurity.sophos.com ··· sswords/

AOL said it is investigating a large scale breach of AOL Mail in which "a significant number" of accounts were compromised.

User information including encrypted passwords, encrypted answers to security questions, postal addresses, and address book contacts were compromised, the company said in a blog post.

However, AOL said that no users' financial information has been stolen and there is no indication that the encryption on passwords or answers to security questions was broken.

Also, AOL says:
AOL Security Update Apr 28th 2014
»blog.aol.com/2014/04/28/ ··· -update/
...Although there is no indication that the encryption on the passwords or answers to security questions was broken, as a precautionary measure, we nevertheless strongly encourage our users and employees to reset their passwords used for any AOL service and, when doing so, also to change their security question and answer.

GuruGuy
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join:2002-12-16
Atlanta, GA

GuruGuy

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What financial info would have been stolen? It's a free service

Hank
Searching for a new Frontier
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join:2002-05-21
Burlington, WV

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Hank

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There are some folks that still use the paid AOL service.

antdude
Matrix Ant
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join:2001-03-25
US

antdude

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said by Hank:

There are some folks that still use the paid AOL service.

Yep, and dial-up like my old uncle.