Dear Yahoo customers:

When technology news reaches the national news, you can conclude one of two things

1)  There is a major problem

2)  The media has gotten it wrong.

500 million Yahoo accounts have been compromised.  This is a #1 scenario.  It is recommended that you change your Yahoo password immediately.  If you have a plain vanilla Yahoo account you can follow the steps posted in this official Yahoo article.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2035.html

On that page you will find special instructions if you have have internet with Frontier / ATT or other internet provider that provided you e-mail with Yahoo (including @sbcglobal, @att, and @snet)