Yahoo suffers world's biggest hack
By Agencies in San Francisco | China Daily | Updated: 2016-12-16 07:48
Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company's own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history.
The digital heist disclosed on Wednesday occurred in August 2013, more than a year before a separate hack that Yahoo announced nearly three months ago. That breach affected at least 500 million users, which had been the most far-reaching hack until the latest revelation.
"It's shocking," said security expert Avivah Litan of Gartner Inc.
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