Story highlights Opinion: We can't control this, and we can't opt out. All you can do is protect yourselfArthur says hacking isn't going away - but nor is our reliance on the webCharles Arthur is a freelance journalist who has been writing about technology for over 20 years. He is a former technology editor at The Guardian and The Independent(CNN) The real lesson of the Yahoo hack, in which 500 million user account details were stolen in 2014, is this: any account details you enter into an online storage system will probably get hacked at some point. But more broadly, it's simply another reminder that pretty much nothing is safe. Of the top ten sites in the world, only Google (with YouTube), Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have not suffered widespread intrusions into their user databases.

Source: CNN September 23, 2016 13:41 UTC