The company, which is going through the process of purchase on the part of the telecommunications firm Verizon, announced in a press release that an “entity not authorized” stole information that contains names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, passwords and, in some cases, security questions and answers are encrypted (such as those used to retrieve the accounts).
The platform ensured that the information about credit cards and bank accounts were not stored on servers that are believed to have been affected.
As he explained, Yahoo analyzed a series of files -provided by the police and which allegedly contained data of its users – with the assistance of “forensic experts external” and discovered that indeed it was leaked information from its systems in 2013. “The company has not been able to identify the intrusion associated with this theft. Yahoo believes that this is a separate incident to the informed on the 22nd of September 2016,” he said in the statement.
“Yahoo is notifying users possibly affected, and has taken steps to secure their accounts, including requiring them to change their passwords. Yahoo in addition has invalidated the security questions and answers are not encrypted so they can’t be used to access the accounts,” he continued.
The company recommended its users to check whether their accounts were “suspicious activity” and to “avoid clicking on links or download attachments from mails suspects”.The news about this incident did fall by 2.5% in the value of shares of Yahoo in the last hours of the trading day, as reported by Business Insider, and slid that this revelation could have implications in the purchase process on the part of Verizon, which had offered to 4,800 million dollars by the company, which until a few years ago was one of the main Internet.
in mid-October, Verizon had already made an attempt to get a discount of 1,000 million dollars in respect of the initial offer due to the episodes in which the firm was involved this year.
on The 22nd of September, Yahoo had revealed a massive leak of private data of 500 million users, in an episode that occurred in 2014, and that it was “backed by a State”.
This leak, the company reported, allowed the hackers to obtain personal data such as phone numbers, emails, dates of birth and passwords.
Shortly after, in the first days of October, two former from the technology company to spread that Yahoo had developed in 2015 a software to search for specific information in all mails of its users, by order of the National Security Agency united States (NSA) and the FBI.
while it is unknown what type of information they were looking for intelligence officers, it was learned that Yahoo has agreed to their requirements and developed the program to rummage among the information of all its users.That revelation prompted a reaction bi-partisan in the 48 u.s. representatives asked the White House to report “as soon as possible” on the program developed by Yahoo to spy on the emails.
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