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SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — When Yahoo announced last week it had suffered a massive security breach that compromised 500 million accounts, the company advised customers to immediately change their passwords.

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She says while the compromised information was encrypted, customers, particularly those with common passwords, are still vulnerable.

“If you have an easy-to-guess password or if they’re [the hackers] persistent enough, they could break that scrambled-up code,” Hautala said.

We like to feature the people and events that are making today's tech news.Concerned about his inability to change his password, Stryer reached out to Consumerwatch, and we reached out to AT&T.August 15, 2017 So did you know the Spider Forest Webcomic Collective had a podcast? And guess who's a panelist on this week's episode: (Technically I was in the nonhumans episode too, as moderator, but... : P) It was a fabulous discussion with some fascinating people, and I think they cut most of my really rambly bits out, so go have a listen!“When I went to Yahoo to change the password, it wouldn’t allow me to do it,” he said.“I could change the password of the AT&T account, but not the password of Yahoo.” Calling both companies for help, didn’t help either.