Yahoo reveals hackers took a further 1 billion accounts (phone, DoB, names, emails)
by Cory Doctorow from on (#259XS)
Just a few months after Yahoo disclosed a 2014 breach of 500 million user accounts, the company today revealed this was preceded by a 1 billion account breach in 2013, in which the hackers took everything: hashed passwords, names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and possibly the tools necessary to forge login cookies that would bypass password checks altogether.