A hacker may have had access to some 500 million users accounts of Yahoo.
Justin Sullivan, Getty ImagesYahoo said Thursday that at least 500 million user names and passwords were hacked in 2014.
The breach exposed up to 500 million user names, email addresses, telephone numbers, date of birth and, in many cases, security questions and their respective answers, the company said.
The Internet pioneer said he is “working very closely with the police” and believes that was an “agent sponsored by a State”, although he did not specify which country.
Yahoo is urging its users who have not changed their passwords since 2014 to do so.
Verizon, which was acquired by Yahoo for US$ 4,830 million, was notified of the hacking, but said in a statement that in these moments he had information “limited” on the impact of the same.
“We will evaluate as we continue the research and through the lens of all of the interests of Verizon, including customers, consumers, shareholders and communities connected,” said Verizon in a statement.
on August 1, a hacker called “Peace” claimed to have breached the 200 million user names and passwords of Yahoo, and offered to sell them in the call Web dark, after trying to do the same with the accounts of MySpace and LinkedIn.
When the incident was revealed for the first time, Yahoo said that its security team was investigating the claims of the hacker. Almost two months later, the number of affected accounts increased from 200 million to 500 million.
passwords and personal information of millions of users of Yahoo surely were filtered after a hack 2012, the same who had exhibited some 360 million accounts on MySpace and more than 100 million members of LinkedIn. The hack LinkedIn allegedly led to the hackeara as a consequence the Twitter account of the ceo of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
editor’s Note: This article was updated at 3:15 p. m. eastern time from united States to include details about a hack, of 2012, which affected subscribers of Yahoo, LinkedIn and MySpace.
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