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Anonymous Source: Yahoo! Breach May Have Affected 1 to 3 Billion Accounts

posted by martyb on Thursday October 20 2016, @08:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the counting-accounts-counts dept.

butthurt writes:

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.

Previously:
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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  • (Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:07PM

    by GungnirSniper (1671) on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:07PM (#416973) Journal

    If Yahoo has any respect for their business partners they'll tell them before the media, and you.

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:46PM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:46PM (#416989)

    If Yahoo has any respect for their business partners they'll tell them before the media, and you.

    That could well be the case, and would be fair enough. I'm not convinced Yahoo! is well enough run to have that kind of respect though.

  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Friday October 21 2016, @12:03AM

    by Bot (3902) on Friday October 21 2016, @12:03AM (#416995) Journal

    pitiful sexist joke ahead, if sexism offends you stop reading, cover your ears and shout LALALALALA.

    > If Yahoo has any respect for their business partners they'll tell them before the media, and you.

    Dude, Yahoo CEO is a woman. So, expect the crisis to be managed in a feminine way:
    "Dear valued customer, your password is about three days old, do you want to change it anyway? press button below, which also says you accept not to sue us, just in case. Thank you! :* :* :*"

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