The same type of third-party login is possible using your Google account, since Google exposes the information necessary to make that happen in its own OpenID APIs. So there's no poaching happening here, just an open door policy on Yahoo's end, and the implementation of one of Yahoo's APIs on Google's end. Google is currently only offering OpenID logins for Yahoo users, the company says. The Google Code blog gives some more detail: "As [the new login feature] is based on an internet standard, we plan to use it in the future with other e-mail providers that add support for this usage of OpenID and related standards like OAuth, such as in the Microsoft Live identity APIs.
Among other things, these new hybrid systems aim to make the process less confusing for users, and to make OAuth sign-ins easier for applications that run on a phone or on the desktop rather than in a web browser. This article originally appeared on Webmonkey. Follow Webmonkey on Twitter. As a writer, he covers a range of topics including music, film, art, software, social media, and underground culture. Get the Insider App.
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Emma Witman. When you create a Yahoo account, you get access to a free account with Yahoo Mail, Yahoo's email service. The revelation comes on the heels of a separate Yahoo breach affecting million user accounts disclosed in September Forensic experts say an unauthorized third party, in August , stole data associated with more than 1 billion user accounts, including names, emails, phone numbers, birthdates, hashed passwords, and in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers, according to the Yahoo statement.
Yahoo is notifying the affected account holders, and has invalidated the forged cookies. Yahoo notified potentially affected users and stated that it has taken steps to secure their accounts — including invalidating unencrypted security questions and answers so that they cannot be used to access an account and asking potentially affected users to change their passwords.
Still, an email account can be a treasure trove for cybercriminals. Once a thief has your email password, it can be used to access a variety of information you may store or have access to in your emails. And if that password is the same one you use for other accounts, thieves could now have access to a variety of personal information — from retirement and bank account statements to personal email exchanges and photos.
Your identity can be pieced together by a cybercriminal and possibly used to steal your identity, access financial accounts and more. Change your passwords and security questions and answers for any other accounts on which you used the same or similar information used for your Yahoo account.
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