Anyone still using Yahoo is either really uninformed or masochistic (or maybe employed by Equifax?)…
The largest known hack of user data in the history just got tripled in size.
Yahoo, the internet company that’s acquired by Verizon this year, now believes the total number of accounts compromised in the August 2013 data breach, which was disclosed in December last year, was not 1 billion—it’s 3 Billion.
Yes, the record-breaking Yahoo data breach affected every user on its service at the time.
Late last year, Yahoo revealed the company had suffered a massive data breach in August 2013, which affected 1 billion user accounts.
The 2013 hack exposed user account information, including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of births, hashed passwords (using MD5), and, in some cases, “encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers,” Yahoo said in 2016.
Source: It’s 3 Billion! Yes, Every Single Yahoo Account Was Hacked In 2013 Data Breach