Yahoo is not having a good time. It wasn't long ago that it was revealed that the company was the target of a successful hacker attack, which leaked data on around 500 million users.oneaccounts. All this happened in 2014. Now another report has emerged that is even more tragic. Yahoo experienced a similar attack in 2013, and according to the latest information, significantly more accounts were affected. According to the company, more than a billion user accounts were affected. Contact information, Social Security numbers, passwords, security questions and bank account information were leaked.
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First of all, it is probably necessary to pause on the fact that Yahoo actually has more than a billion users. It seems a bit unrealistic, but the company claims it, so we will believe them. The company is investigating the entire incident, and so far it is clear that there is no connection to the attack that occurred less than a year later. The compromised user accounts are allegedly much better secured these days.
Users were prompted multiple times to change passwords, security questions, and more. The question remains whether such a thing is permissible at all. How is it possible for a company to be the target of such an attack twice in one year, and both times the attack succeeds and the hackers get their hands on hundreds of millions of personal information. If for some reason you have a Yahoo account, you may prefer not to use it at all.
Source: Macrumors
