Good thing I don't have a yahoo account

If you use the same email and password for any other services like psn, XBL, PayPal etc etc etc there's a chance these more valuable services will also be compromised. Hackers will enter your yahoo details into a program and it will test it on a whole range of services.

So if you use the yahoo email and password on other services then change them. Luckily for you they have a billion accounts to get through so it could be a while.

Luckily for me I never liked yahoo and never even made an account. This company are already in big trouble and the publicity from this will do massive damage to an already massively damaged brand.

lol why? Is there any better service?

Yes, Mail.com is a better email service than Yahoo. Less ads, better junk filter, and is not full of utter crap.

In case anyone's using the same password on both Yahoo and other services, changing the password on every single one of those services using the same password is recommended. The hackers finding out your password from the hack is basically just a matter of time (and let's be honest, they've probably already cracked like 90% of the passwords by now), and the chances are that they'll try those passwords on other services as well. That's how people get hacked.

I'm probably not affected. The chances are that they got my data as well, but I didn't have much on Yahoo, and long since I've switched to using a password manager to have a different password for every single service I use.

I haven't changed my PW yet, and I know that I have the same PW for Yahoo as I have for other services, but I ask myself, what on earth would hackers do with my Youtube account or Gmail account or some forum accounts? I doubt they have any interest in wasting time on that.

Remember how password resets work? A link gets sent to your email address. Thus anyone having access to your email address has access to every single service where you're using that email address, unless you're also using two-factor authentication - and I'd still be worried even if I was using two-factor authentication. Perhaps you like you Facebook account if you have, or maybe your Steam account with potentially hundreds of games worth a good amount of money? Maybe this isn't an issue for you, but it is for a lot of people.

So many Yahoo accounts, created mostly to use YAHOO IM. It was so good, it put Windows Live Messenger and Skype to shame. We called them "emoticons", not emojis. Kids these days..

Oh yeah, damn it, I forgot about my Steam account.

Thanks for reminding.

You sound like a role player. *hides behind cover*