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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @02:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @02:22PM (#417259)

    How many people wondered:

    1. How many of my accounts are affected by the compromise?

    2. What percent of the compromised accounts are my accounts?

    How many people in that situation have use any of those accounts in the last five years? Ten?

    Disposable email is not needed so much now.

    How many people think it was stupid that yahoo made it so easy to create large numbers of accounts? (Which can be abused if you think about it.)