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Yahoo Breach Hits One Billion Accounts
By Tom Brant
Yahoo Breach Hits One Billion Accounts | News & Opinion | PCMag.com
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The hack disclosed today occurred in August 2013, and compromised names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, passwords, and security questions and answers, according to Bob Lord, Yahoo's chief information security officer.
Yahoo's investigators do not believe that any credit card data or bank account information was stolen, since it is handled by a separate system from the one that was hacked. Yahoo also said that the stolen passwords and some of the security questions and answers were hashed, meaning that the thieves would not be able to read them without additional information from a separate database. Read More Here
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