Yahoo Announces Massive Data Breach Of Nearly 500M Accounts

Yahoo has announced that the company suffered a major data breach in 2014.

The company announced that information related to nearly 500 million user accounts was accessed, likely by “a state-sponsored actor.”

According to the release, hackers accessed names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.

Users whose accounts may have been affected will be contacted. The company suggests that users who have not changed their passwords since 2014 do so, even though “the ongoing investigation suggests that stolen information did not include unprotected passwords, payment card data, or bank account information.”

This article first appeared on Womanista.com