Security News > 2017 > October > It's 3 Billion! Yes, Every Single Yahoo Account Was Hacked In 2013 Data Breach
2017-10-03 23:01
The largest known hack of user data in the history just got tripled in size. Yahoo, the internet company that's acquired by Verizon this 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—it's 3 Billion. Yes, the record-breaking Yahoo data breach affected every user on its service at the
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