Is a 2015 smash hit for Milky Chance. Chances are, if you are a YAHOO user, you do not know that somebody has STOLEN your data, THRICE.
Bloomberg has the story, that it rocking the internet world today :
Yahoo! Inc. disclosed a second major security breach that may have affected more than 1 billion user accounts, another blow to the company’s reputation as it nears the sale of its main web businesses to Verizon Communications Inc.
The company said in a statement Wednesday that it hasn’t been able to identify the “intrusion” associated with this theft by a third party in August 2013. The event was unearthed by forensic experts after law enforcement investigators warned the company about a potential breach. Yahoo has said it has about 1 billion users.
Yahoo said it believes the incident “is likely distinct” from the hack the company disclosed in September. The shares dropped as much as 2.7 percent in extended trading after the announcement.
In September, Yahoo said the personal information of at least 500 million accounts was stolen in a 2014 attack on its accounts, exposing data from a wide swath of its users ahead of the Verizon deal. The attacker was a “state-sponsored actor,” and stolen information may have included names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, unencrypted security questions and answers, Yahoo has said.
“This is more of the same bad news for every Yahoo user,” Paul Martini, chief executive officer of San Diego-based Iboss Cybersecurity, said in a statement. “What’s really shocking about this latest breach is that everyone with a Yahoo account has now likely had their personal information stolen two or three times.
