issue showed According to Yahoo, the attackers were able to obtain names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, hash passwords (using MD5), and in some cases encrypt and unencrypt security questions and answers. The hackers did not obtain unencrypt passwords, payment or banking information. In the instructions “How to protect yourself from cyberattacks,” the company advises changing passwords and security questions if they are the same on several services, and monitoring your accounts for suspicious activity. In addition, Yahoo reminds people not to provide personal information at the request of third parties, click on unfamiliar links, or download suspicious attachments from email.
Separately, it is not that third-party security issue showed
Researchers have also uncover special lead instances of passwordless logins to Yahoo users through manipulation of fake IDs. that most likely the attackers were able to gain access to the proprietary code base us to ensure the operation of the service. Yahoo believes that the 2014 hack was carri out by a hacker associat with an unidentifi foreign government; the company has not identifi the source of the 2013 attacks, but believes that they were organiz by different groups.
Both hacks occurr when the company
Was l by Marissa Mayer, who took over Yahoo four years ago but fail to improve its competitiveness and save it from employee attrition and falling revenue. The reputational damage is especially inconvenient for the American company now, when it is planning to sell its business to the American telecom operator Verizon for $4.8 billion. Earlier, the mia report that after the publication of information about the search engine hack this fall, the provider wants to ruce the purchase price by $1 billion.
The billion-account hack is one of the largest
Personal data breaches in recent years and the largest to come to light since early 2016. The largest breach to date was the on the stage of the palais des congrès, conversation with agnès vigué-camus theft of personal data from 412 adb directory million accounts on the international dating network AdultFriendFinder. Most of the passwords to the dating network accounts were either stor unencrypt or encrypt using insecure hashing algorithms, allowing 99% of the passwords to be decrypt.
