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Business Insider reports that a compromise of Yahoo! that had been acknowledged to affect "at least 500 million" accounts may have affected significantly more. Citing an unnamed "former Yahoo executive familiar with its security practices," the story says that the company's "main user database, or UDB" which stores the details for users of several of the company's services, was compromised. If the entire database were copied, information on one to three billion accounts could have been stolen.
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Amid Fallout from Hack and Spying, Yahoo! Disables Email Forwarding
In Yahoo Breach, Hackers May Seek Intelligence, Not Riches
500 Million Yahoo Accounts Hacked
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Anonymous Source: Yahoo! Breach May Have Affected 1 to 3 Billion Accounts
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If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @10:26PM
They have probably been considering it in the background for awhile due to a combination of the price, the liability of using Yahoo! due to the pending sale, and that Yahoo! doesn't play nice with mobile. In addition, many businesses change providers every other year behind the scenes. The last bit of news was, most likely, the proverbial last straw.