"Dishonest", not in the slightest. From what I'm told, they really don't know how they got in. But that's only the part of the story discussed in the press release, what's not discussed is how the data existed in that format.
From my experience if Paranoids did know they would have locked it down at the expense of engineers or others. I know since I have made breaking changes to infrastructure which did lock out some engineers and cause plenty of headaches.
Every Yahoo I have ever known has cursed the Paranoids for getting and the way. Every Yahoo that has actually been in a situation has also blessed the Paranoids for the same reasons.
Simple fact is that Yahoo has a mega butt ton of code from several decades. There are going to be holes and when they are found they are fixed pretty damn quick. Last one I dealt with was solved in hours with all hand on deck. Sometimes it just sucks to be as old a Yahoo is.
