Anyone still using Yahoo is either really uninformed or masochistic (or maybe employed by Equifax?)…<\/p>\n
The largest known hack of user data in the history just got tripled in size.<\/p>\n
Yahoo, the internet company that’s\u00a0acquired by Verizon<\/a>\u00a0this 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\u2014it’s\u00a03 Billion<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Yes, the record-breaking Yahoo data breach affected every user on its service at the time.<\/p>\n
Late last year, Yahoo revealed the company had suffered a massive data breach in August 2013, which\u00a0affected 1 billion user accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The 2013 hack exposed user account information, including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of births, hashed passwords (using MD5), and, in some cases,\u00a0“encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers,”\u00a0<\/i>Yahoo said in 2016.<\/p>\n