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Yahoo Hacked, More Than 500 Million Accounts Are Affected



Yahoo Hacked, More Than 500 Million Accounts Are Affected

Though it is just come to light lately, it’s been disclosed that an tremendous hack that saw around 500 million Yahoo user accounts stolen by hackers really took place two years past. Yahoo, which just detected the hack weeks before it was made public, has divulged that names, phone numbers, encrypted passwords and e-mails were among the private details stolen. Mercifully, Yahoo has affirmed that bank advice wasn’t required by the burglars. hough the episode was divulged by the search engine company, questions encompassing the hack remain. Yahoo has said the perpetrator is a “state-sponsored performer”, though it hasn’t given evidence to support the claim. A recent report by Reuters has maintained that Yahoo created a program to search all its users’ e-mails at the behest of US intelligence officials, leading some to consider the events are connected. Nevertheless, information security company InfoArmor says the hackers are unquestionably of the criminal assortment, having monitored who it considers are the perpetrators for three years.


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Though it is just come to light lately, it’s been disclosed that an tremendous hack that saw around 500 million Yahoo user accounts stolen by hackers really took place two years past. Yahoo, which just detected the hack weeks before it was made public, has divulged that names, phone numbers, encrypted passwords and e-mails were among the priv...Read More

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