> Furthermore I got no email from Yahoo telling me that my account may have been hacked
Then your account was most likely not on the list of accounts compromised.
> By the way I did some PHP dev back in 2011
Well Yahoo is a tad bit older then that, by about 17 years. This is not an excuse, but really comparing your 2011 coding to 1994.... Go ahead and boot up your old 486. I'll get back to you when this page loads up in an hour. :)
Yahoo's code base is old and huge, like billions of lines huge. Yahoo's engineers have modernized it at a massively rapid pace. I'm not sure of current state, but when I left Yahoo finance was written in something like 10 languages including serving pages in C, cause that's all they had back then.
Current tech is NodeJSish and others. They have their own hardened versions. But still migrating millions of lines of C to something other then C isn't a walk in the park.
Then your account was most likely not on the list of accounts compromised.
> By the way I did some PHP dev back in 2011
Well Yahoo is a tad bit older then that, by about 17 years. This is not an excuse, but really comparing your 2011 coding to 1994.... Go ahead and boot up your old 486. I'll get back to you when this page loads up in an hour. :)
Yahoo's code base is old and huge, like billions of lines huge. Yahoo's engineers have modernized it at a massively rapid pace. I'm not sure of current state, but when I left Yahoo finance was written in something like 10 languages including serving pages in C, cause that's all they had back then.
Current tech is NodeJSish and others. They have their own hardened versions. But still migrating millions of lines of C to something other then C isn't a walk in the park.