Yahoo Says 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: December 14, 2016 at 5:48:10 PM EST
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Yahoo Says 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked
>
>
> Yahoo Says 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/technology/yahoo-hack.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
>
>      Yahoo, already under a cloud from its summertime disclosure
>    that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014,
>    disclosed Wednesday that another attack a year earlier had
>    compromised more than 1 billion Yahoo accounts. The newly
>    disclosed attack involved more sensitive user information,
>    including unencrypted security questions. Yahoo is forcing all
>    of the affected users to change their passwords and it is
>    invalidating the security questions.  Yahoo had agreed to sell
>    its core businesses to Verizon Communications for $4.8
>    billion. Verizon said that it might seek to renegotiate the
>    terms of the transaction after the first hacking was
>    disclosed. It's unclear how the newest information will affect
>    its view of the purchase.
>
> - - -
>
> Security Questions are potential security disasters, especially if you
> give "correct" answers to the typical ones.
>
> --Lauren--
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