In 2016, Yahoo disclosed to the public that it had been breached in 2014. Yahoo’s 2014 breach exposed the names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birthdates, “hashed” passwords, and, in some cases, security questions of over 500 million users. While investigating the breach of 2014, Yahoo discovered that the company had been separately breached in 2013. Yahoo initially reported that the 2013 breach affected over one billion users while it was in the process of getting acquired by Verizon. In October 2017, after ...
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N. Daswani, M. ElbayadiBig Breacheshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6655-7_77. The Yahoo Breaches of 2013 and 2014
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