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Man arrested for selling Netflix and Spotify accounts

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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced today that they arrested a man accused of selling stolen login credentials online. The unnamed man, a 21-year-old living in Sydney, Australia, operated a website called WickedGen.com that advertised havin...

Snapchat Breach Affects 4.6M Users

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Over 4.6 million individuals in North America had their most important data hijacked off Snapchat by hackers. It all started with SnapchatDB, which opened alongside the actual site. This provided two...
    






Yahoo doling out inactive usernames to new owners, opens a Watchlist for $1.99

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Yahoo doling out inactive usernames to new owners, opens a Watchlist for $1.99

Yahoo users eager for a name change began logging their interest for inactive usernames in mid-July, and now Mayer and Co. are finally ready to re-assign dormant email addresses. Messages from the search giant are going out to folks who applied for a new identity, notifying them if one of their screen names of choice is ready for the taking. Those who struck out on desired account names will automatically have their choices added to a "Watchlist," and will be alerted if and when they're freed up. While keeping tabs on preferred monikers via the Watchlist is free for those who registered their interest in snapping up handles, it'll cost others the princely sum of $1.99 to monitor availability for three years. Click the neighboring source links to stake out a maximum of five names you're partial to.

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Via: Marketing Land

Source: Yahoo (1), (2)

Yahoo to free up old usernames after a year of inactivity

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Yahoo to free up usernames after a year of inactivity

Unless you're quick to sign up with new services, snagging a simple user ID with your name, or just about any word from the English dictionary, can be unlikely. If you're only first joining Yahoo today (for one reason or another), however, registering any account without a handful of random numbers tacked on at the end is downright impossible. That'll soon change. The internet giant has announced on Tumblr that come July 15th, IDs that have been inactive for more than a year will be released to the public, giving shoegurlmary1992@yahoo.com a chance to snag mary@yahoo.com, for example. The decision seems perfectly reasonable to us. We only hope that other sites (Twitter) follow suit.

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Via: The Next Web

Source: Yahoo (Tumblr)