OCU recommends changing passwords after hacking suffered by Yahoo

Yahoo confirmed late yesterday have suffered so far is considered the biggest hack a company history, recognizing that in late 2014 the data of at least 500 million accounts had been stolen from its servers. Although among the information stolen no data such as credit card or bank accounts are included, it is an attack of the utmost gravity that has led the US company to recommend to those affected a number of measures to prevent further damage to these as disabling security questions to recover the password. Similarly Yahoo has announced that it is contacting the affected account holders to change their passwords.

OCU from the need to take into account a number of recommendations as included in the website Vive un internet seguro: http://www.ocu.org/viveinternetseguro/ is remembered. Among them are creating complex passwords with at least 8 different characters consisting of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols; which do not contain personal information such as family names or phone numbers or preferably use a phrase whose words are separated by spaces or hyphens. It is also recommended establishing two-step verification whenever possible and occasionally change passwords.