Yahoo under another cyber attack: confirmed the theft of data of 1000 million accounts – LA NACION (Argentina)

This new massive cyber attack became the largest security breach in history and he questioned the agreement of Verizon, the telecommunications company that plans to stay with the pioneer company of the Internet

Yahoo! confirmed that a cyber attack exposed the personal data of 1000 million accounts. Photo: Reuters

Yahoo said Wednesday that it discovered a new, massive cyber attack and said that the associated data to more than 1,000 million user accounts were compromised in August 2013, in the biggest breach of computer security history.

The number of accounts affected was twice involved in a cyber-attack of 2014, which the company unveiled in September and attributed to hackers working on behalf of the Government.

the news of The attack in 2014 that affected about 500 million accounts, took it to Verizon to say in October that you could withdraw from an agreement to buy the business of the Internet of the Yahoo 4830 millions of dollars.

After the most recent revelation, Verizon said, “we will review the impact of this new development before coming to a final conclusion”.

A spokesperson for Yahoo told Reuters that the company has been in communication with Verizon during its investigation of the attack, and hoped that the incident will not affect the process of acquisition.

Yahoo asked all its customers to change their passwords -a measure more severe than the took after it discovered the breach of security prior, when only recommended a change of key.

The firm also said Wednesday that he believes that the hackers responsible for the previous attack agreed to its code proprietary to learn how to forge “cookies” that allow them access to an account without a password.

Yahoo said that the incident is possibly different than the one revealed in September and that the stolen information “could have included” names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, data “hash” of the passwords and, in some cases, security questions and answers are encrypted and not encrypted.

The company said that it has not been able to identify the intrusion associated with the theft, but stressed that the bank account information and credit card data was not stored in the system is believed to have been affected.

shares of Yahoo fell 2.4 percent to 39,91 dollars in electronic trading after the close of the session, in the meantime, the Verizon operated a few changes to 51,63 dollars.

Reuters

In this note: