After confirming a massive cyber attack last December that implicated 1 billion accounts, Yahoo parent company Oath announced today that after further investigation, all 3 billion user accounts that existed in August 2013 were affected by the massive data breach. Actions currently being taken by Yahoo include sending email notifications to the additional affected user accounts, requiring them to rest their passwords, and invalidating unencrypted security questions and answers, as well as actively working with law enforcement. Yahoo yet confirms another massive cyber attack and this time around, it's double the number implicated from before. Read more in our articles including "Yahoo confirms 2013 hack affected every single account" and "Yahoo discovered new data breach of more than one billion accounts".
After confirming a massive cyber attack last December that implicated 1 billion accounts, Yahoo parent company Oath announced today that after further investigation, all 3 billion user accounts that existed in August 2013 were affected by the massive data breach. Actions currently being taken by Yahoo include sending email notifications to the additional affected user accounts, requiring them to rest their passwords, and invalidating unencrypted security questions and answers, as well as actively working with law enforcement.
Yahoo yet confirms another massive cyber attack and this time around, it's double the number implicated from before.
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