{"id":41112,"date":"2016-12-15T18:42:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=41112"},"modified":"2016-12-15T18:42:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:42:57","slug":"yahoo-1-billion-user-accounts-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/?p=41112","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo: 1 Billion User Accounts Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The largest data breach ever has struck Yahoo, and if you have an account with the company, you\u2019ll want to take precautions right away. More than 1 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked, potentially jeopardizing private information, the company announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/strong>: How Scammers Hack Into Your Transactions<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The hack, just coming to light now, occurred during August 2013. Unidentified hackers stole data including names, e-mail address, telephone numbers, dates of births, and passwords, the company says. The data breach is twice as large as a 2014 hack that Yahoo Inc. had disclosed earlier this year that affected 500 million users.<\/p>\n

Yahoo is urging its users to change passwords, security questions, and upgrade security to their accounts immediately. Consider enabling two-step authentication to your Yahoo accounts for an extra level of security. This will send a text message or call the user\u2019s phone with a code as a second verification step.<\/p>\n

Further, review your non-Yahoo accounts. Change passwords and security questions on those accounts that may have similar information that was used to access your Yahoo account.<\/p>\n

Also, scrutinize any e-mails you might receive from Yahoo: Phishing e-mails have been reported from crooks who are posing as Yahoo and asking users to click on links. Yahoo says none of its e-mails contain attachments, and the e-mails will not request user\u2019s personal information.<\/p>\n

“If an e-mail you receive about these issues prompts you to click on a link, download an attachment, or asks you for information, the e-mail was not sent by Yahoo and may be an attempt to steal your personal information,\u201d the company said. \u201cAvoid clicking on links or downloading attachments from such suspicious emails.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: \u201cYahoo Discloses New Breach of 1 Billion User Accounts<\/a>,\u201d The Wall Street Journal (Dec. 14, 2016) [Log-in required.] and \u201cDo This Now if You\u2019re a Yahoo User<\/a>,\u201d USA Today (Dec. 14, 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The largest data breach ever has struck Yahoo, and if you have an account with the company, you\u2019ll want to take precautions right away. More than 1 billion Yahoo accounts were hacked, potentially jeopardizing private information, the company announced Wednesday. Read more: How Scammers Hack Into Your Transactions The hack, just coming to light now, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.myewm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}