Yahoo officials confirmed more than 500 million accounts compromised, think invasion by "State-sponsored"-Yahoo hack-IT information

IT information news on September 23, Yahoo's official announcement today, confirmed the company had hacked in 2014, this invasion leads to more than 500 million accounts compromised.

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Disclosure of account information, including account names, email addresses, telephone numbers, date of birth, as well as some security questions and answers. In addition, read the encrypted password of account information theft.

This is one of the biggest hacking incidents.

Yahoo said is currently working closely with the Legal Department, the company believes that the invasion was "State-sponsored", but the company didn't specify which countries.

Yahoo has not been modified since you suggested 2014 password change the password as soon as possible.

Verizon announced in July to us $ 4.83 billion takeover of Yahoo, the company today also issued a statement, saying that in the past two days that the hacking incident, Verizon that only partial information, as well as cognitive limited the scope of the event.

Verizon said: "we will survey and assessment, including users, customers, shareholders, and communities. ”

From b. Riley said Sameet Sinha, an analyst of the company, the incident is unlikely to affect Verizon Yahoo.

Senate Democrats Sen. Mark Warner criticized Yahoo in 2014 when information disclosure is not found in time, until 2 hours after the incident that the public details.

雅虎官方确认超5亿账户信息泄露，认为入侵受“国家支持” - 雅虎,黑客入侵 - IT资讯

IT资讯讯 9月23日消息，雅虎官方今日发布公告，确认该公司在2014年时曾遭黑客入侵，本次入侵导致超过5亿账户资料泄露。

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泄露的账户资料包括账户名称、电子邮箱地址、电话号码、出生日期以及部分账号的安全问题以及回答。此外，读取账户资料的加密密码也被窃取。

这是有史以来最大规模的黑客入侵事件之一。

雅虎称目前正与法律部门紧密合作，该公司认为本次入侵是“国家支持的行为”，不过该公司并未指出具体哪个国家。

雅虎建议2014年以来尚未修改过密码的用户尽快修改密码。

Verizon在7月份宣布将以48.3亿美元收购雅虎，该公司今日也发表声明，称在过去两天里获悉本次黑客入侵事件，Verizon仅得知部分信息，同时对于该事件的影响范围认知有限。

Verizon表示：“我们将在调查进行的同时进行有关评估，包括用户、顾客、股东和相关社区。”

来自B. Riley公司的分析师Sameet Sinha表示，本次事件不太可能影响Verizon收购雅虎。

民主党参议员Sen. Mark Warner批评雅虎在2014年信息泄露时未及时发现，公众们在事件发生2小时后才得知相关细节。