Yahoo has announced that the data from 500 million users was stolen by a state-sponsored hacker group in 2014.
Pretty much every type of user information was stolen during the attack: names, email addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, passwords and security questions.
A Verizon spokesperson (remember, it recently bought Yahoo) told The New York Times that the company learned of the hack just a couple days ago and had “limited information and understanding of the impact.”
If you’re a Yahoo user, it’s time to change that password and any other password that’s remotely similar to your Yahoo one.
WORK SMARTER - LEARN, GROW AND BE INSPIRED.
Subscribe today!
To Read the Full Story Become an Adweek+ Subscriber
Already a member? Sign in