Security News > 2017 > March > Yahoo cookie-forging incident affected 32 million accounts (Help Net Security)

We finally know how many user accounts were affected by last year’s Yahoo cookie-forging incident: 32 million. What happened? “In November and December 2016, we disclosed that our outside forensic experts were investigating the creation of forged cookies that could allow an intruder to access users’ accounts without a password,” the company noted in a report submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. “Based on the investigation, we believe an unauthorized third … More →

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