Now All Of The Sudden They Say My Old Password Is Not My Password, What Happen?

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Answer #1: Posted by LightofEarendil on July 16th, 2012 8:20 AM

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There was a recent security breach involving Yahoo accounts. Yahoo is asking the people affected to reset the password as a security measure.

It's not a suresign your account is compromised though, the list that was stolen was years old, but please do change the password as a precautionary measure. If you want more background information on this breach:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/12/tech/web/yahoo-users-hacked/index.html

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