Updated: Yahoo may soon confirm massive data breach
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Update: Yahoo has confirmed the data breach, and says the leaked information pertains to 500 million accounts and dates back to 2014. The leaked data "may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords [...] and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers." The company will be notifying affected users. We urge anyone with a Yahoo account to change their password immediately. The original story follows below:
Technology news website Recode reports former web search leader Yahoo may imminently acknowledge a massive data ...