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The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 and affected all three billion user accounts. The 2014 breach affected over 500 million user accounts. Both breaches are considered the largest ever discovered and included names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and security questions—both encrypted and unencrypted.
The company said last December that data from more than 1 billion user accounts was compromised in August 2013.
Yahoo just revealed that in August 2013, someone stole data linked to more than one billion accounts. Back in September, the company announced a 2014 security breach affecting some 500 million ...
A separate data breach, occurring earlier around August 2013, was reported in December 2016, and affected over 1 billion user accounts. [44] Both breaches are considered the largest discovered in the history of the Internet.
The new proposal includes a single fund from which $55 million would be available for out-of-pocket costs and $24 million in identity theft protection for class members.
December 2016: Yahoo! data breaches reported and affected more than 1 billion users. The data leakage includes user names, email addresses, telephone numbers, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers, dates of birth, and hashed passwords
Confirm the Data Breach Is Real. The first thing you need to do when you get a notice about a data breach is to confirm it’s real. “Verify that this isn’t fake news and that the company you ...
List of data breaches This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the number of records is still ...