Yahoo reveals new hack of billion user accounts

‘The US internet giant Yahoo says personal data from more than one billion user accounts run by the company was stolen in a hack dating back to 2013, in what appears to be the largest publicly disclosed cyber-breach in history.
“Yahoo believes an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with more than one billion user accounts,” the internet company said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that it “has not been able to identify the intrusion associated with the theft.”
Names, phone numbers, passwords, and email addresses were stolen in the hacking, but not bank-account information and payment-card data, according to the statement.
Yahoo said the current disclosure differed from an earlier one made back in September revealing that 500 million users had been affected in a 2014 hack.’
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