Yahoo confirms over 1 billion user accounts have been hacked

Yahoo today confirmed that hackers have stolen data from over 1 billion user accounts. The breach occurred in 2013, and Yahoo warns that stolen data may have included names, dates of birth, email addresses, telephone numbers, hashed passwords, and more. This is a totally separate incident to the one that occurred in late 2014 when at […] (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)