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What Yahoo Users Can Do After the Hack

Internet users with email or online-service accounts they no longer use should log into them and close them out. “They just create more points of vulnerability,” said Brad Russell, a research analyst at Parks Associates. Sometimes that might mean having to go through steps to recover an old password you might not remember, but it’s worth it.

From the article "What Yahoo Users Can Do After the Hack" by Anne Steele.

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