SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA — Internet giant Yahoo is today coming to terms with a cyber-calamity after admitting it is the victim of the biggest data breach in history.
In 2014, hackers gained access to at least 500 million Yahoo accounts, but for some reason we’re only hearing about this now.
The hackers swiped account names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, passwords, and even security questions and answers, tech site CNET reported.
Yahoo blamed an unknown foreign government for the hack, so fingers immediately pointed to the usual suspects of China, Russia and North Korea.
The biggest fear is that hackers will use the stolen data to access accounts on other websites.
So if you haven’t done so already, go and change your Yahoo password.
Cybersecurity experts also recommend not using the same password across different sites. Err, because hacking.
We shouldn’t need to tell you this, but “123456”, “password” and “let me in” are just too obvious and around half a billion Yahoo users are now at risk of finding that out the hard way.