Based on the statement put out by Yahoo’s CISO the extent of data stolen is vast and it is a serious data breach.
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Yahoo is also encouraging all users to review their online accounts for suspicious activity. Yahoo also says that no bank or credit card information was compromised, but credentials including dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords were taken.
Just because you don’t have a Yahoo email account doesn’t mean you’re off the hook.
Suzanne Philion, a spokesperson for Yahoo, said the company does not comment on ongoing litigation.
This wouldn’t be the first time that governments were implicated in high-profile hacking attacks.
It was bombshell news for the millions of users of the popular site. A massive hack on Yahoo has hit millions of accounts.
Yahoo is facing lawsuits from people who fear their accounts have been hacked and claim the company was “grossly negligent”, putting their financial and personal data at risk.
Both plaintiffs are bringing the class-action complaints on behalf of all users affected by the breach.
Yahoo said they were notifying any potentially affected users and asking any users who have not changed their passwords in the last two years to do so.
The person familiar with the matter said several other technology companies suffered similar targeted attacks in late 2014. In such cases, intelligence officials might share useful commercial secrets with their home-grown industries, said Jeremiah Grossman, an official at SentinelOne, a Silicon Valley computer security firm.
They point out that for a hacker to specifically target a particular user was just too arduous a task, unless the hacker had a good reason to so. Yahoo doesn’t believe any unencrypted passwords were involved, and they say that bank and bank card information isn’t even stored in the same system as the one affected. “Yahoo works hard to keep our users safe, and we always encourage our users to create strong passwords, or give up passwords altogether by using Yahoo Account Key, and to use different passwords for different platforms”.
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