The company said it continues to work closely with law enforcement agencies and forensic experts. However, Yahoo, a company formed during the earliest days of the internet, has now "obtained new intelligence" that suggests that all three billion of its user accounts were breached.Īnnouncing the results of a recent investigation, a company statement by Verizon subsidiary Oath said that stolen information included names and addresses, but that passwords stored in plain text, and credit card or transaction information remained secure. In December last year Yahoo publicly disclosed that more than one billion user accounts had been affected by a breach on their systems, leading to $350 million being wiped off the takeover deal by Verizon. Yahoo announced on Tuesday that all three billion of its accounts were affected by a hack in 2013, tripling the number of victims of data breach already considered the largest in industry history. :Yahoo says all 3 billion user accounts were hit by 2013 hack
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