Remember Yahoo's data breach? It happened again with more accounts than last time

A few months ago, Yahoo admitted to about 500 million email accounts becoming compromised thanks to a hacker a.k.a. Peace. It all started when such hacker promised to sell 200 million usernames, passwords, and birthdates for some $2,000. The data breach affected some people and hackers could gain access to any of these yahoo email accounts, compromising more accounts which were associated with that email address. A new press release from Yahoo confirms that more than one billion accounts' information has been stolen by "an unauthorized third party" back in August of 2013 and...

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