1 billion Yahoo user accounts HACKED
Yahoo is in the middle of a tricky situation. After the previous 500 million user accounts hacked, now Yahoo back should experience similar incidents.
the number of hacked accounts more than a has-been. Noted, there are about one billion email accounts compromised.
Reported by Ubergizmo from Business Insider, Thursday (15/12/2016), an action of hacking Yahoo user account is claimed is different with that occurs in September 2016. So, the amount of one billion accounts is hacked with 500 million accounts that were hacked in September.
"Yahoo company has analyzed the hacked data with the help of experts, it was found that the data derived from the user's Yahoo. Based on further analysis, we suspect a third party who is not responsible for starting to steal these data since August 2013 "wrote Yahoo in its official description.
Yahoo also stated that they had been giving notification to the user that is hacked to immediately secure the account belongs to them.
"We strive to provide a notification to the user that potentially hacked in order to directly check the account, secure it by changing the password," next Yahoo.
"They said, we also have disabled the security question is not encrypted so they cannot be used to access your account.
Previously, Yahoo believes the action of hacking that occurred in September 2014 is an action of "Government-sponsored actors". That is, it is an act of an individual on behalf of the Government.
"The stolen account information includes name, email address, phone number, date of birth, passwords, and in some cases, security questions and answers are encrypted or not encrypted," said Yahoo explains.
A massive data theft issues Yahoo first blow in August 2013, when a hacker named "Peace" claim he pocketed the data of more than 200 million users of Yahoo.
Not only that, "Peace" had also previously that it has data from LinkedIn and MySpace users.
the number of hacked accounts more than a has-been. Noted, there are about one billion email accounts compromised.
Reported by Ubergizmo from Business Insider, Thursday (15/12/2016), an action of hacking Yahoo user account is claimed is different with that occurs in September 2016. So, the amount of one billion accounts is hacked with 500 million accounts that were hacked in September.
"Yahoo company has analyzed the hacked data with the help of experts, it was found that the data derived from the user's Yahoo. Based on further analysis, we suspect a third party who is not responsible for starting to steal these data since August 2013 "wrote Yahoo in its official description.
Yahoo also stated that they had been giving notification to the user that is hacked to immediately secure the account belongs to them.
"We strive to provide a notification to the user that potentially hacked in order to directly check the account, secure it by changing the password," next Yahoo.
"They said, we also have disabled the security question is not encrypted so they cannot be used to access your account.
Previously, Yahoo believes the action of hacking that occurred in September 2014 is an action of "Government-sponsored actors". That is, it is an act of an individual on behalf of the Government.
"The stolen account information includes name, email address, phone number, date of birth, passwords, and in some cases, security questions and answers are encrypted or not encrypted," said Yahoo explains.
A massive data theft issues Yahoo first blow in August 2013, when a hacker named "Peace" claim he pocketed the data of more than 200 million users of Yahoo.
Not only that, "Peace" had also previously that it has data from LinkedIn and MySpace users.
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