Who Got Hacked This Week? October 6 Edition

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Every Single Yahoo Account Was Hacked in 2013

Yahoo now believes the total number of accounts compromised in the August 2013 data breach, which was disclosed in December last year, was not 1 billion, but 3 Billion.

The 2013 hack exposed user account information, including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of births, hashed passwords (using MD5), and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers.

However, the recent announcement by Yahoo makes it clear that if you had an email account on Yahoo, you were part of the infamous data breach.

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