There's been at least one way to grab the main id of an account for a very long time (which I still have working). This is why I recommend going into chat on the main id and not the alias. When they check your name they'll just see the main id and won't have any of the aliases you may have on your account in their possession. It's easier to boot a person when they have aliases that are known because the chat servers treat them as separate target recipients (more flooding can be done before bans occur).
As far as posting address info, phone numbers, etc, I can do this as well. The way I'm able to do it is not through Yahoo! at all, it's through a survey site that you can use to reveal the information for any e-mail address (if they're in the database). Scary stuff but this has always been possible. Your "hidden" display pics can be viewed as well. More than 2 years ago I discovered a way to do this which still works and two more ways over the years which also still work. I haven't seen this being used by anybody to do anything other than peep on people's hidden pictures. I can turn their display pic/avatar off/on as well which is what I discovered a couple years back. There's a lot of stuff that can still be done, some of it I'll be reporting to Yahoo! when it becomes public, some without waiting.
Maybe I'll pay a visit to this room sometime and see what they can do to me. They're likely using something similar to what I have to "drop docs" (term for grabbing and revealing a person's personal information). If a Yahoo! production server (web server etc) has been compromised then they can get this information there too, but this may not be limited to just within Yahoo!'s own realm. The way I do it isn't limited to just Yahoo!/Yahoo! Chat.
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