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Accounts of ‘At Least’ 500 Million Yahoo Users Have Been Hacked

Sep 23, 2016  •  Post A Comment

“Yahoo announced on Thursday that the account information of at least 500 million users was stolen by hackers two years ago, in the biggest known intrusion of one company’s computer network,” reports The New York Times.

The story continues, “In a statement, Yahoo said user information — including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, security questions — was compromised in 2014 by what it believed was a ‘state-sponsored actor.’”

The Times adds, “‘The stolen Yahoo data is critical because it not only leads to a single system but to users’ connections to their banks, social media profiles, other financial services and users’ friends and family,’ said Alex Holden, the founder of Hold Security, which has been tracking the flow of stolen Yahoo credentials on the underground web. ‘This is one of the biggest breaches of people’s privacy and very far-reaching.’”

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2 Comments

  1. Two years ago, and they’re just telling us now, when it’s WAY too late to do anything to protect yourself. Thank you Yahoo, for being so responsible to your users; seems like you’re very appropriately named.

  2. They couldn’t announce it sooner or it could have impacted the sale price and Melissa’s compensation. Obviously, their priorities were never about consumers, which is why they have continued to falter.

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