Recycled Yahoo email addresses still receiving messages for previous owners – passwords included

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Recycled Yahoo email addresses still receiving messages for previous owners – passwords included

Yahoo announced in June 2013 that it was going to recycle inactive email addresses by giving them to other users who wanted them.

Addresses and Yahoo IDs that had been inactive for at least a year would be reset, in the hope of allowing someone with an awkward address, such as johnsmith4737, the opportunity to grab something far more desirable, like plain johnsmith.

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