“If Yahoo knew about the hack as early as August, and failed to coordinate with law enforcement, taking this long to confirm the breach is a blatant betrayal of their users’ trust”, he said in a statement.
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Democratic Senator Mark Warner said in a statement he was “most troubled by news that this breach occurred in 2014, and yet the public is only learning details of it today”.
Even though it may be time-consuming, he advises that affected users change their passwords and security questions, not just at Yahoo, but across all their internet accounts.
Yahoo is an Internet giant, with more than 1 billion monthly active users. While Yahoo claims that no Flickr, Tumbler or Rivals.com user data was stolen, it pays to change it all together. Other experts are working on alternatives to passwords, such as biometrics like your fingerprint or retina. Peace has previously claimed responsibility.
“We need to take that ability away from criminals, and the only way to do that is to stop relying on passwords altogether”. The breach disclosed on Thursday dates back to late 2014. We will examine as the investigation continues, through the lens of overall Verizon interests.
September 22, 3:45 P.M., EASTERN: Yahoo confirmed the report, but the breach turned out to be greater than previously expected.
Thursday’s cyber security data breach could be the largest ever.
Most consumers might not think there’s much in their Yahoo account that would be of use to hackers, which typically might only include only their email and Yahoo password.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter account was hacked using a similar method after the passwords of more than 100 million LinkedIn members were leaked. That’s according to the latest data from the research firm comScore.
Target Corp. first announced its massive data breach in December 2013, saying that 40 million debit and credit cards were affected. They also advisde users to review their accounts for activities that are not related to them personally. At first it said the intrusion into its customer data files took place between May 2006 and January 2007, but it later learned that it also was hacked into in July 2005 and other periods during that year.
On that note, you really should use different passwords for every account you use.
The company stated that an internal investigation uncovered the hack, which it believes to have come from what it called “a state-sponsored actor”.
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“The ongoing investigation suggests that stolen information did not include unprotected passwords, payment card data, or bank account information; payment card data and bank account information are not stored in the system that the investigation has found to be affected”, the Sunnyvale, California-based company added.
