Yahoo, one of the largest email services, was hacked, along with other online services of the company with the same name, she will confirm everything in the following hours. A hacker named Peace seems to have managed to gain access to hundreds of millions of accounts of the Yahoo! network, threatening to distribute them publicly to the whole world.
During last summer Yahoo! admitted that the data of 200 million user accounts were accessed by hackers and then sold online, the problem being just as serious now. American authorities are investigating the issue and Yahoo! cooperate with them, because the hacker Peace and his possible accomplices will be taken into hiding.
Those at Yahoo initially did not take seriously the information received from various sources, according to which its servers were hacked, but they clarified the problem. For the time being, Yahoo has not notified users that it is necessary to change their passwords, but as soon as it publicly confirms the hack, it will probably take this step as well.
Yahoo! was hacked, hundreds of millions of accounts were exposed
A lot of people use Yahoo to send emails, to find out daily information, to use the Messenger platform, and much more, so we are talking about a major problem. If those from Yahoo will not officially announce that users must change their passwords, then we are talking about a cover-up of the hack, but it is unlikely that this will happen.
"This hack became known in August, when a well-known cybercriminal named Peace claimed on a website that he was selling the log data of 200 million Yahoo users. The data is for accounts registered from 2012 onwards, and the asking price is only 1800 dollars. That data includes names, decrypted passwords, personal information and dates of birth."
If Yahoo recognizes the hack, then we are talking about the biggest hack of this kind that has been done on the company's servers in its entire history. After recognition, it would be ideal to change your Yahoo account password, if you do not use 2-step authentication, in fact it would be good to do this right now.
