If You Use Yahoo For E-Mail You Need To Get Out NOW!!!

As you may have heard in the news, Yahoo has once again been compromised. To make matters worse, Yahoo has now prevented users from enabling mail forwarding. This step makes it more difficult for Yahoo users to get out. Here are some practical steps you can take to get out of Yahoo now:

  1. If you don't have an account with another provider, create one now. Ideally, we recommend Gmail or Outlook.com for personal use. Business users should seek commercial-grade accounts from a reputable Hosted Exchange or commercial e-mail provider. If it's free or cheap, it probably isn't good enough for business.
  2. Once you create the account, enable two-factor authentication. We recommend an authenticator app such as Sophos Authenticator or Google Authenticator. We do not recommend using mobile phones (SMS messaging) because giving the provider your mobile phone can put that information at risk if they were ever to be compromised (yes, we assume that any and every provider can be compromised).
  3. Begin changing your e-mail addresses in every online service that you used your Yahoo address on, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc.
  4. Most providers also allow you to pull in e-mail from other providers. Set up your Yahoo account in your new provider so that all of your existing e-mail can be pulled in. Yahoo's POP3 server is pop.mail.yahoo.com (port 995 with SSL) and their IMAP server is imap.mail.yahoo.com (port 993 with SSL). The advantage, in this case, of using POP3 over IMAP is that POP3, if configured correctly, should drain the account of all its messages (this is permanent, proceed with caution).
  5. Once all your e-mails have been pulled in and address updated with other online services, you may delete your Yahoo account. Be careful, because this is permanent. Alternately, you may leave it open for a few months and monitor it for activity. You can monitor from your new account since e-mails will be pulled in to it.

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