All 3 billion Yahoo accounts breached in 2013

October 3, 2017 by Paul Spoerry 3 Comments

All 3 Billion Yahoo Accounts Affected in Catastrophic Breach
The Yahoo breach was already considered to be the largest known hack of user data when it was counted at 1 billion affected accounts. Now, that record-breaking breach has tripled in size.

Remember when 1 billion accounts were compromised in 2013, but only discovered and disclosed in 2016… yeah well triple that figure – it was actually 3 billion. Just go ahead and figure that if you had a Yahoo account then it was compromised.

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I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

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I'm currently work for IBM developing web enabled insurance applications for IBM and support and develop a non-profit called The LittleBigFund.

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Ifa Tola says

October 3, 2017 at 3:46 pm

Congra.
Timothy W says

October 3, 2017 at 4:14 pm

Yahoo! is crap and has been that way for a long time. Nobody under 60 uses it, at least in the US.
Sandra Joshua says

October 3, 2017 at 7:14 pm

Yes everyone's on the hangout …lol

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