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The first data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 [1] and affected all three billion user accounts. [2] [3] Yahoo announced the breach on December 14, 2016. [4] Marissa Mayer, who was CEO of Yahoo at the time of the breach, testified before Congress in 2017 that Yahoo had been unable to determine who perpetrated the 2013 breach. [5]
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 ...
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.
August: T-Mobile reported that data files with information from about 40 million former or prospective T-Mobile customers, including first and last names, date of birth, SSN, and driver's license/ID information, were compromised. [192] September and October: 2021 Epik data breach.
December 14, 2016: A separate data breach, occurring earlier around August 2013 is reported. This breach affected over 1 billion user accounts and is again considered the largest discovered in the history of the Internet. [152] The data taken is similar to the data breached earlier except that it had very weak password encryption.
A news item involving Yahoo data breaches was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 23 September 2016. Wikipedia This article is rated GA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
0–9. 2012 Yahoo Voices hack; 2014 Russian hacker password theft; 2015 TalkTalk data breach; 2016 Indian bank data breach; 2018 Google data breach; 2018 SingHealth data breach
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 ...