All 3 Billion Yahoo Accounts Were Hacked, Company Reveals

Every account was affected.

Earlier this year, Yahoo announced that 1 billion of its accounts were hacked. That made it the single-largest data breach ever in terms of the number of accounts. Today, Yahoo announced that it was even worse. All 3 billion of its accounts were compromised.

Yahoo said in a news release that it "obtained new intelligence" with the help of of "outside forensic experts." Based on this new information, Yahoo can now say that "all Yahoo user accounts were affected" by the August 2013 breach.

Stolen user account data did not include clear-text passwords, credit card info, or bank details, Yahoo said. Though the hack is not an ongoing situation, Yahoo said it is continuing to work alongside law enforcement on the matter.

For comparison, 3 billion is more than the number of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram users combined. This was the biggest hack in history, and it was just the latest for Yahoo, as a separate 2014 hack from a "state-sponsored" actor compromised some 500 million accounts.

Another element at play here is that the disclosure of the massive Yahoo data breach came during Verizon's buyout of Yahoo. As GameSpot sister site CNET explains, Verizon was originally set to pay $4.83 billion for Yahoo but the price was slashed by $350 million following the revelation of the breach. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reportedly investigating Yahoo to determine if it alerted users to the breach fast enough.

Verizon's chief information security officer, Chandra McMahon said in a statement that Verizon is "committed to the highest standards of accountability and transparency, and we proactively work to ensure the safety and security of our users and networks in an evolving landscape of online threats."

McMahon went on to pledge: "Our investment in Yahoo is allowing that team to continue to take significant steps to enhance their security, as well as benefit from Verizon's experience and resources."

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/all-3-billion-yahoo-accounts-were-hacked-company-r/1100-6453773/

Yahoo is still a thing?
I remember trying to make an email account over there a few months ago but at some point in the process they demanded my phone number to continue with the excuse that they would send a confirmation code or something.
Well I don't have a phone number anymore, when I see how smartphones turn people into social zombies I just realize I don't care for that contraption no more and that's not mentioning how we are tracked by govs or hackers plus viruses and so on...
Point is, I couldn't make an account without providing a phone number so I just gave up.

Damn, my troll account was hacked. I remember going on Yahoo answers and writing the worst answers possible.

Good times.

well, that's nice when my main e-mail is on Yahoo... guess it's time to shift to another e-mail...

damn, my djfunkmaster22 email got blasted then and all they got was that shitty/edgy name.

lol oh Yahoo xD

I'm just gonna throw this in here...

This is gold

Dont they control Flickr and Tumblr, were those affected? Iirc u needed to register emails with them, one of the most complex and awful sign up procedures I went tru.

lol, sad how they survived so long, should've gone down in the dot com bubble

And then they bring Marissa Mayer to right the ship, who became one of the worst ceos.

This would be upsetting if I didn't make a throwaway account with fake user data