A Yahoo confirmed that there was an invasion of more than 500 million user accounts, where names, e-mails, phones and birth dates and even encrypted passwords were stolen.
The international press has begun to talk about this issue even before Yahoo itself has officially confirmed the invasion that is being considered the largest that the company has ever faced, since too much information has been stolen that is creating major problems in the company.
In the month of July the Verizon announced that it intended to buy Yahoo through a business valued at US $ 4,83 billion and with this invasion we think the deal could be affected in its entirety and cause Verizon to back down in the deal. Yahoo has already suffered several attacks and intrusions, even in August of that year was found a hacker who was selling 200 data millions of users who were compromised since 2012.
Yahoo said an investigation was launched to find out the main causes of this invasion, according to the company, data such as unprotected passwords, credit card data or bank information were not stolen, but Yahoo says it is working with the authorities so that it can provide a solution to the problem caused. "We confirmed that a copy of certain information from our users' accounts was stolen from the company's servers in late 2014, so we think it is a theft sponsored by someone from the state, said CEO Marisa Mayer"
We advise our readers who have Yahoo accounts to make changes to their passwords, not open unknown email, seek to make the most important data removal and not even seek to panic through a strange email.
