By Nancy Rand, Posted in Security
September 22, SecurityWeek – (International) Yahoo confirms massive data breach of 500 million accounts. Yahoo Inc. confirmed September 22 that a hacker, dubbed “Peace” and “peace_of_mind” accessed the data from at least 500 million user accounts, including names, email address, hashed passwords, and birth dates, among other information, during a 2014 cyberattack. Yahoo stated unencrypted security questions and answers were invalidated and advised potentially affected users to... read more.