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Title: Yahoo's billion account breach: 5 things you should do to stay safe Post by: HCK on December 18, 2016, 04:05:15 pm Yahoo's billion account breach: 5 things you should do to stay safe
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Internet giant Yahoo announced a massive data breach (http://www.pcworld.com/article/3150670/security/yahoo-reports-massive-data-breach-involving-1-billion-accounts.html) Wednesday that affected over one billion accounts, making it by far the largest data breach in history. This follows the disclosure in September of a different breach (http://www.computerworld.com/article/3123083/security/yahoo-data-breach-affects-at-least-half-a-billion-users.html) that affected more than 500 million of the company’s customers.</p><p>What stands out with this new security compromise is that it occurred over three years ago, in August 2013, and that hackers walked away with password hashes that can be easily cracked.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3150953/security/5-things-you-should-do-following-the-yahoo-breach.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Yahoo's billion account breach: 5 things you should do to stay safe (http://www.macworld.com/article/3150953/security/5-things-you-should-do-following-the-yahoo-breach.html#tk.rss_all) |