Yahoo’s massive data breach could affect hundreds of millions of users

2016-09-22 1

Yahoo is poised to report a massive data breach of its service — a giant hack that has exposed the data behind hundreds of millions of user accounts. The confirmation would come after a hacker known as “Peace” claimed last month to have details for about 200 million Yahoo accounts. The announcement of the breach is expected to come this week and will likely also have an impact on the $4.8 billion sale of Yahoo’s core business to Verizon.