It was greatest data ft in history, and as it turns out, it was much bigger than previously thought: in year 2013, hackers captured personal data of Yahoo users. The company talked about one billion accounts--in fact, all three billion users were victims of hacker attack at time. That shares new Yahoo owner, telecom provider Verizon, with.

However, it can still be assumed that stolen data does not include credit card or account information, nor passwords in plaintext ( encryption method used MD5 is quite easy to crack, however). In some cases, however, security issues may also have been read. In addition, hackers were able to access names, email addresses, phone numbers, and unrecognizable passwords.

It remains unclear behind how many of accounts were still active users at time of attack. The company's customer base has shrunk enormously in recent years. In US main market, service is now used, for example, primarily for well-known football fantasy game of group.

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Yahoo had first granted a hacker attack in 2014 last year, of which 500 million user accounts were affected. Shortly reafter, previous, larger attack of 2013 was known. The revelations led to a reduction in purchase price for Yahoo by 350 million dollars. The American telecom company Verizon was actually trying to take Yahoo's core business for $4.8 billion, ultimately he still paid just under $4.5 billion.

Anor hack, which could still have serious consequences, is latest cyberattack on economic information Equifax. The attackers captured data from significantly fewer users, but affected 145.5 million Americans could have stolen social security number, among or things. You can use it to identify yourself in United States in case of contract agreements.

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