Yahoo confessed to the burglary of the entire user base

It turns out that in 2013, the data of all users to the global service fell into the hands of fraudsters.

Yahoo (which is currently part of the assets of Verizon) has confirmed that a major data breach of 2013 was not 500 million and not billion users as the company announced previously — and each user Yahoo. We are talking about 3 billion accounts.

These details became known after Verizon bought Yahoo, and the latter became part of her digital-business Oath. “After a transaction and during the integration, the company received new information about that.. that all accounts of Yahoo users have been compromised during the theft in August 2013. Although this is not a new security issue, Yahoo is now additionally send notifications to those users affected. The investigation revealed that the stolen user information did not contain data about the password in clear text, credit card information or Bank account information,” — said in a statement.

Hacking 2013 related to the information about user accounts, including usernames, email addresses, hashed passwords, birthdays, phone numbers, and in some cases encrypted questions and answers for security check.

Recall that Verizon bought Yahoo in June last year for $4.8 billion And, because information about such large-scale fraud, the company later announced that it would reduce the price of the asset at $350 million.

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