Yahoo has disclosed a new data breach affecting more than 1 billion user accounts. According to the company, this data breach which is different than and unrelated to the one disclosed this past September involved an unknown third party stealing user account data in August 2013. The stolen data includes names, email addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, MD5 hashed passwords and both encrypted and unencrypted security Q&As.
Yahoo detailed the news yesterday evening in a... more