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Yahoo announced that personal data from over one billion users was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013, which is twice as many users affected than a previous breach disclosed in September 2016. Some intrusions were done without passwords by using forged cookies. Stolen user information may have included names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.

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Yahoo announced that personal data from over one billion users was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013, which is twice as many users affected than a previous breach disclosed in September 2016. Some intrusions were done without passwords by using forged cookies. Stolen user information may have included names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.

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Yahoo said this case is likely distinct from the incident the company disclosed on September 22, 2

WASHINGTON: Yahoo said on Wednesday personal data from over a billion users was stolen in a ha
ciated with this theft. Yahoos chief security officer Bob Lord said in a blog post that some of the in

d on September 22, 2016 afecting 500 million users. In November, Yahoo had disclosed that as part of its in
ers was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013 twice as big as another breach disclosed just three months ag
ost that some of the intrusions were done by hackers who accessed accounts without a password by using fo

d that as part of its investigation into the prior breach, it had received data files from law enforcement that
d just three months ago. In a huge blow to the struggling Internet pioneer, Yahoo said it made the discovery
password by using forged cookies, or data files which verify a device or user. The stolen user account infor

w enforcement that a third party claimed was Yahoo user data. Using outside forensic experts, Yahoo now
made the discovery as it was investigating what was already the largest data breach of a single company.
en user account information in the newly disclosed breach may have included names, e-mail addresses, tele

c experts, Yahoo now confirms that this was indeed user data but added that it has not been able to identify
f a single company. Yahoo believes an unauthorised third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with
e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security

t been able to identify the intrusion asso


data associated with more than one billion user accounts,
unencrypted security questions and answers, Yahoo said. AFP

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