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In 2013 and 2014, the American web services company Yahoo was subjected to two of the largest data breaches on record. Although Yahoo was aware, neither breach was revealed publicly until September 2016. The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 and affected all three billion user accounts.
The hack began with a spear-phishing email sent in early 2014 to a Yahoo company employee. It’s unclear how many employees were targeted and how many emails were sent, but it only takes one...
In a statement, Yahoo said user information — including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, security questions — was compromised in...
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said on Thursday that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 by what it believed was a state-sponsored actor, a theft that appeared to be the world's...
Hackers swiped personal information associated with at least a half billion Yahoo accounts, the internet giant said Thursday, marking the biggest data breach in history.
The 2014 Yahoo data breach compromised data from 500 million users, one of the largest in history. Hackers accessed names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates, and security questions. The breach was likely caused by a social engineering or spear phishing attack targeting privileged users.
Yahoo says 'state-sponsored' hackers stole information from about 500 million users in 2014 in what appears to be the largest publicly disclosed cyber-breach in history.
Late 2014 A “state-sponsored” hacker breaks through Yahoo’s network security and steals data belonging to at least 500m accounts. Bob Lord, Yahoo’s chief information security officer, has...
In a press release today (Sept. 22), Yahoo confirmed earlier reports of a massive data breach of its servers, disclosing that in 2014 someone had stolen users' names, email addresses, telephone...
Yahoo says at least 500 million accounts were hacked two years ago. The company revealed the data breach on Thursday, without saying whether it knew all along or just found out.