NEW YORK (CNNMoney) –
security experts say that the infiltration in the Yahoo account is “massive”.
Yahoo confirmed on Thursday, September 22, that they had stolen more than 500 million accounts of its users in an infiltration that occurred at the end of 2014.
experts believe that might be the hack greatest of the history.
in order To have a point of comparison, the hack LinkedIn happened in 2012 affected 117 million accounts and a few months ago it was announced that 360 million accounts, MySpace had been committed.
In the information that was obtained in the hack Yahoo could be names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and, in some cases, security questions, encrypted or not encrypted with their responses, according to a press release from Yahoo.
According to Per Thorsheim, a consultant in cyber security who works in Norway, hacking “will have an impact on the network during several years.”
he Pointed out that we must not underestimate the potential impact although the stolen information did not include banking information or social security numbers.
“The devil has made you erroneously think that your bank account is the most important information on Earth. But it is not,” said Thorsheim. “At least not in the case of security and privacy online. I’m more concerned that they are infiltrating my account Facebook in my bank account, honestly”.
Thorsheim added that in the hack to Yahoo had led to “a loot of secrets.”
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even Though there is nothing interesting in the e-mail account itself, “the e-mail can be used as a platform to gain access to sensitive information through password reset”, he added.
Although Yahoo said that behind the hack was “an entity with the support of the State” (a term used to refer to an individual who acts on behalf of a government,” the experts say that the information obtained could be used for anything, such as blackmail and filling out junk mail to users when they discover their passwords for other services.
“it is not Yet clear about the mobile, but there was simply to filter the credentials and leave it there,” said Michael Borohovski, ceo of Tinfoil Security.
Borohovski pointed out that Yahoo could have taken certain steps to better protect their users. Was not encrypted all the information relating to accounts, including some security questions that could be used to enter other internet accounts of the users.
“I Think that was an omission. There is no reason not to encrypt that information,” said Borohovski. “The problem is not that [people] have to worry about your Yahoo account, but by all other accounts that use. I’m not entirely sure that the consequences of this cover exclusively to Yahoo.”
Thorsheim also noted that as the leakage happened two years ago, it is very likely that many of those affected to continue using the same password.
people can take certain steps to protect yourself from the hackers, such as frequently change the passwords of their e-mail services and have different passwords for each account.
“This definitely will go down in the history books,” said David Kennedy, founder of TrustedSec, a cyber security company.
he cautioned, however, that this kind of news could become “the new standard”.
“This is what we should expect and it is what will continue to happen if companies do not protect the information as they should,” he said.
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