Silicon Valley, California – Hackers leaked personal information for about half billion of Yahoo user’s account.
Tech giant Yahoo confirms on Thursday, that their system was hacked. It happened or took place in 2014, when hackers revealed names, email address and contact numbers and birth dates. Yahoo which is in the process of selling itself to Verizon for $4. 83 billion, said it’s “working closely” with law enforcement. It’s called the hackers a “state-sponsored actor,” though it didn’t identify a country behind the breach.
Tech Pioneer (Yahoo) has over 1 billion active users each month urges their users to change their password if they haven’t since 2014.
How to secure your account after being hack
- change your password
- never use the same password
- pick strong password
- update security question often
Source : Fox Business, CNET
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