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Yahoo data breach affecting 1 Billion Accounts - Webroot Commentary

December 2016 by Tyler Moffitt, Senior Threat Research Analyst at cyber security company Webroot

Following the news that Yahoo suffered yet another data breach from 2013, this time affecting up to 1 billion accounts. The commentary from Tyler Moffitt, Senior Threat Research Analyst at cyber security company Webroot.

This latest Yahoo breach is huge on many levels. All of the data stolen, including emails, passwords and security questions, make a potent package for identify theft. The main email account has links to other online logins and the average user likely has password overlap with multiple accounts. This breach is separate from the September one, having happened in 2013 and it took a third party to analyze and bring it to their attention. This is disgraceful as Yahoo would have remained unaware. The fact that Yahoo has taken steps to secure user accounts is of little comfort. These accounts have been compromised for years and the sheer number of them means they have already been a large source of identity theft. No one should have faith in Yahoo at this point and this breach might very well affect the $4.8 billion Verizon deal.


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