Yahoo to confirm 200 million accounts were hacked, reports say

At the time, the multinational tech company said it was aware of the stolen data and was investigating the claim.

"Online intrusions and thefts by state-sponsored actors have become increasingly common across the technology industry", Yahoo said in a release. Yahoo said its users who haven't changed their passwords since 2014 should do so in light of the recent hack.

Such a revelation would confirm earlier reports that the same hacker who'd stolen data from LinkedIn was now selling information from 200 million Yahoo accounts on a dark web marketplace.

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is expected to announce a huge data breach of user information.

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Peace was selling that batch of data on the 200 million Yahoo users for 3 bitcoin, or around $1,860, according to Motherboard.

The report, which cited multiple anonymous sources familiar with the situation, said the announcement is expected this week. However, one of Recode's sources is now saying that the latest data breach is "worse".

Verizon said on Thursday it was notified of in the last two days. The potentially exposed data is extensive, including things like user email addresses, names, birth dates, hashed passwords, phone numbers, and possibly security questions/answers of both the unencrypted and encrypted varieties.

Verizon Communications bought Yahoo, including the Yahoo Search and Yahoo Mail divisions, in July for $4, 83 billion dollars. The sale process is near completion but need to be first approved by a number of regulatory agencies and Yahoo shareholders before any deal is sealed. We've reached out to Yahoo for comment but have yet to hear back. Shareholders are also anxious that it could lead to an adjustment in the price of the $4.8 billion transaction.


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