Ms. Marissa Mayer's incompetence never ceases to amaze us. Already in 2013, there was a hacker attack on Yahoo that affected more than one billion user accounts. A billion! In 2014, another 500 million accounts, from which hackers obtained sensitive ones informace.
On Wednesday, December 14, Yahoo officially announced that an unauthorized third party had stolen data associated with more than one billion user accounts in August 2013. The bug is still plaguing the company because the expanded accounts contained sensitive informace about users – names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, password hashes (MD5 authentication) and, in some cases, encrypted and unencrypted security response responses.
The good news, however, is that the investigation has shown that the stolen data did not include passwords in plain text, or any credit card or banking details. Yahoo has already removed the forged cookies and made the appropriate changes in its system - improved security - and if your account was exposed during this period of security attack, then you should have received a notification and an apology email from Yahoo itself.
Yahoo also came close to a major buyout of Verzion for $4,8 billion. However, after the release of the news that hackers had obtained over a billion accounts, the price dropped to a ridiculous $1 billion.
Source: AndroidAuthority
