Washington (AFP) – The internet group Yahoo has admitted Wednesday he was the victim of a cyber attack in 2013 that struck more than a billion of its users, and which comes in addition to a previous hacking of the $ 500 million of its accounts.
“Yahoo believes that an unauthorized third party had stolen, in August 2013, data related to more than a billion user accounts”, writes the pioneer group of the internet in a press release, stating not to be able to identify for the moment the authors of this intrusion on a mass scale.
The names, telephone numbers, or birth dates of customers of Yahoo were able to be stolen by hackers even if the group says that the information concerning their credit cards or their bank accounts have not been affected.
“The payment cards data and information on bank accounts are not stored within the system” who has been affected by piracy according to Yahoo, which provides “work closely” with the authorities to try to trace back the hackers.
According to the group going through great financial difficulties, this new incident is “probably” distinct from the vast cyber-attack revealed at the end of September but back in 2014, and involved 500 million user accounts.
Yahoo had then suggested that a group of hackers linked to a State could be behind this huge attack and was also told to investigate on cookies (spyware) that they have created in order to gain access unlawfully to the accounts of users.
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This new setback majeure occurs at the most inopportune time for Yahoo, which has entered into an agreement in late July to give the telecom giant Verizon its activities to core business (Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News…) for $ 4.8 billion.
After the revelation of the cyber-attack of 2014, Verizon stated that he was ready at the end of October to carry out the transaction, but had warned that he would not do so “blindly”.
Contacted Wednesday by the AFP, the telecom giant has assured that it would “assess the impact of this new episode before coming to final conclusions”.
“We’ll assess the situation while Yahoo continues its investigations,” added the group in an email.
Yahoo had no need of a new blow. The pioneers of the internet, the group founded in 1994, a time, been the reference in terms of search engine and drove to the meters with a market value of about us $ 125 billion.
But he did, however, never recovered from the arrival of Google, which has dethroned and ringardisé.
today, its market capitalisation is not worth more than 39.1 billion and is largely based on the shares it owns in the chinese giant of online distribution Alibaba.
In electronic trading after the close of Wall Street, the share Yahoo lost 1,35% 40,91 dollars.
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