monkeymagick
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Don't want to sound the alarm, but the headline rings true. Ars Technica reports that every Yahoo account created since 2013, about 3 billion were compromised. Yahoo originaly estimated the August 2013 hack exposed close to 1 billion user accounts which at the time was the biggest data breach ever. I assume those numbers increased exponentially due to everyone and their dog having two extra accounts.
Yahoo left unchanged its estimates for a separate browser cookie-forging hack that took place in 2015 and 2016 and was carried out by the same state-sponsored attackers who participated in the 2014 breach. In its 2016 annual report, Yahoo said the forged cookies affected about 32 million accounts. There's no indication the 2013 breach and the cookie forging are connected or were carried out by the same attackers.
Yahoo left unchanged its estimates for a separate browser cookie-forging hack that took place in 2015 and 2016 and was carried out by the same state-sponsored attackers who participated in the 2014 breach. In its 2016 annual report, Yahoo said the forged cookies affected about 32 million accounts. There's no indication the 2013 breach and the cookie forging are connected or were carried out by the same attackers.
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