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The billions of people who had their sensitive information snatched from their Yahoo accounts between 2013 and 2016 are now eligible for two years of free credit-monitoring services and other ...
The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 and affected all three billion user accounts. The 2014 breach affected over 500 million user accounts. Both breaches are considered the largest ever discovered and included names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and security questions—both encrypted and unencrypted.
The settlement includes a single fund from which $55 million would be available for out-of-pocket costs and $24 million in identity theft protection for class members. It also includes $30 million ...
The Yahoo Voices breach occurred on July 12, 2012, when a hacking group calling themselves "D33DS Company" used a union-based SQL injection attack to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo's servers. [5] The attackers were able to extract and publish unencrypted account details, including emails and passwords, for approximately 450,000 user accounts ...
The data did not incorporate visit statistics for the Yahoo!-owned Tumblr website or mobile phone usage. [23] On September 22, 2016, Yahoo disclosed a data breach in which hackers stole information associated with at least 500 million user accounts in late 2014. [24] According to the BBC, this was the largest technical breach reported to date. [25]
The new proposal includes a single fund from which $55 million would be available for out-of-pocket costs and $24 million in identity theft protection for class members.
The breaches were revealed after New York-based Verizon agreed to buy Yahoo's Internet business, and prompted a cut in the purchase price to about $4.5 billion. Data breach victims can sue Yahoo ...
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually.