Yahoo confirms data breach affecting at least 500 million accounts
By Hayley Tsukayama and Andrea Peterson September 22 at 4:05 PM
Yahoo on Thursday said at least 500 million user accounts had their information compromised in a massive hack that it believes was perpetrated by a "state-sponsored actor." The scale of the breach makes it among the largest on record.
In a lengthy post on its company website, Yahoo's chief information security officer, Bob Lord, said that account information taken "may have" included names, email address, telephone numbers and dates of birth. Obfuscated passwords, which aren't in plain text, and possibly encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers may have also been a part of the hack. While Yahoo is still investigating the breach, Lord said financial information, including credit card numbers and payment card data, were not accessed; that information is stored in a separate system.
Furthermore, Lord said in the company release that the apparent state-sponsored hacker is no longer in Yahoo's systems.
"Yahoo is working closely with law enforcement on this matter," Lord said.
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