Yahoo one of the largest e-mail servers said more than one billion user accounts may have been affected in a hacker attack in the year of 2013.
Unlike the service breach in 2014 disclosed in September, when the company revealed that 500 million accounts had been accessed.
Yahoo said that names, phone numbers, passwords and email addresses were stolen, plus no bank details, credit card or other form of payment were affected. (Ca between us. Even if bank details were stolen, they would also not be so naive in disclosing this. Why just now?)
Yahoo, which received a proposal from Verizon for $ 4.8 billion, said it is working closely with police and officials. Yahoo has taken some steps to warn users to change their passwords and security questions.
According to Cyber Security expert Troy Hunt told the BBC:
“That would be by far the biggest data breach we've seen. In fact, the 500 million that they reported a few months ago is actually double and unprecedented ”.
Hey, Yahoo!
First you told us that 500 million accounts were hacked, now 1 billion? That only names, phone numbers, passwords, and email addresses were stolen, plus no bank details, credit card or other form of payment were affected?
What will guarantee us at this moment, that Uncle Sam did not take any banking data or that this invasion is uglier than you are saying? If only in recent months and most recently did you upgrade to second form of authentication?
Has Yahoo decided to announce now that it was not only 500 million accounts, but double because there is something ugly to come by? Just wait and see.
"Yahoo did not attribute the attack to any state-sponsored activity, as it did with the previous incident. They refer to the tampering of cookies, however, which gives us some useful information about where the vulnerability may have existed in your system. " When Yahoo in September disclosed the data breach of 2014, they said the information had been "stolen by what they believe to be someone with state sponsorship." Yahoo did not say which country was responsible for this act.
Right now Yahoo is under pressure to reveal, why it took so long for the breach to be made public.
The California-based company has more than 1 billion monthly active users, although many people have multiple accounts. There are also many accounts that are underused or dormant accounts.
With this recent disclosure, new questions will be raised about Verizon's $ 4,8 billion proposal to buy Yahoo, and whether the US mobile operator has attempted to modify or abandon its offer.
If the failure patterns are severe, and if the intruders caused a major reaction against Yahoo, then the company's services would not be so valuable to Verizon.
In an assessment Verizon said it would evaluate the situation as Yahoo investigates and would review the "new development before reaching any conclusions". Verizon allegedly devalued Yahoo by $ 1 billion after news broke of 2014's attack.
It's very embarrassing for a company that was once one of the biggest names on the internet but could not keep up with rising stars such as Google and Facebook.
Yahoo was even valued at $ 125 billion during golden times, but it has lost ground since then, despite several attempts to improve…
