Yahoo report a cyber breach which allowed some hacker to steal data from over a billion personal accounts. This is the most serious theft ever from the databases of an internet giant.
In particular, the company reports that the hackers have stolen "names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, encrypted passwords and in some cases also encrypted or unencrypted security questions, with their answers".
However, among the information leaked There would not be "plain text passwords, payment card or bank account details“, which would be stored on a different system than the one that suffered the attack.
This new tile hits Yahoo just over two months after the previous hacking record: it was early October when the company let it be known that half a billion of his accounts had been hacked.
In addition to the image of the group, the new episode will certainly weigh on theagreement with Verizon, the American telecommunications giant that bought Yahoo! for about $4,8 billion and could now ask for a discount.
As for Marissa Mayer, the CEO who unsuccessfully tried to relaunch Yahoo, at this point it is difficult to imagine that it can be confirmed after the change of ownership of the group.
