The personal data of one billion user accounts have been stolen in 2013, said the company.
Yahoo! found this night to have been a victim of a theft of data from large-scale in 2013. The personal data of a billion accounts have been stolen, including names, email addresses, and encrypted passwords and answers to secret questions (that are not encrypted in some cases). Hacking this is the second major hacking of Yahoo! revealed this year : in September, the company acknowledged that the information of 500 million accounts had been stolen in the past.
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Even if a part of the information stolen in 2013 were encrypted, the technology used by Yahoo! at the time to make this information unreadable is far from infallible. Leave the principle that it is possible that your password has been stolen.
Change your password immediately
If you have the time a Yahoo! (even if the latter was not used for the image-hosting service Flickr), it is highly recommended to change your password immediately, especially if you have not changed for several years. If you use your password Yahoo! for other services, also change the password for these services.
If you have not already done so, activate two-step verification, which requires in addition to the password, a code sent by SMS to each connection, is a simple and effective method that allows you to make the intrusion into your box electronics much more difficult.
The secret question, which allows you to recover your password in case of forgetting, is a port of entry frequently used in piracy. Yahoo! has not provided information as to whether the answer to your question has been stolen, or if it was encrypted, if applicable. Change it immediately, focusing on a question whose answer is known only to you – avoid any question of which the answer can be found easily, such as the classic “what is the maiden name of your mother ?” or ” what is the name of your pet ? “.
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