500 million Yahoo accounts stolen
If you use Yahoo in 2014, your login information is likely in the hands of hackers. Yahoo reports that a security breach compromise the login information for at least a half a billion users. Among the stolen information includes names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birthdays and in some cases unencrypted security questions and answers. If you have not changed your password since 2014, now would be a good time to do so.
Yahoo is prompting affected accounts to change their passwords and those old security questions and answers no longer will work to retrieve your account, because they were part of the data breach but even if you change your password, you still have to worry about identity theft with birthday, phone number and security answers out there and it could also be used to access other accounts on other services.
So who is responsible, Yahoo says it was done by someone paid by a government agency, although which government isn't said. It's always hard to really be sure in these kinds of incidents. The hack was first revealed in august but it's only now after a two-month investigation that we're learning how many accounts were affected.
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