Yahoo has followed September's disclosure of a hack that potentially impacted 500 million users with the admission of a separate attack involving a hella troubling amount of people. The tech company announced Wednesday that another attack in 2013 compromised "more than 1 billion Yahoo accounts," the New York Timesreported.
Sensitive user information, including unencrypted security questions, are believed to have been intercepted. All affected users are being forced to update their passwords. The security questions, as of Wednesday, have been invalidated. In a press release, Yahoo went into more detail regarding the breach:
Those responsible for the attack have not been identified.
In a previous statement confirming the 2014 hack, a Yahoo spokesperson also advised users to pay close attention when clicking all over an email from a weird-ass address. "The company further recommends that users avoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from suspicious emails and that they be cautious of unsolicited communications that ask for personal information," a spokesperson recommended. For more security recs straight from the hacked horse's mouth, peep right here.
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