Personal data of 500 million users of Yahoo has Leaks

This week, Yahoo confirmed that has been the victim of a hacker attack which led to leakage of personal data of about 500 million users of Internet services companies.

The stolen data included user names, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, password-protected bcrypt, and answer questions following security question.

"Our investigation concluded that the stolen information did not include passwords without encryption, payment card data or bank account information," Yahoo said in a statement, as summarized BojezCreative of Re / code, Friday (09/23/2016).

Mentioned that the hack on Yahoo actually happened a few years ago, in 2014, but the new know later, ie August when a cyber criminal named "Peace" sell the data of 200 million users of Yahoo in dark black market Internet web alias.

When that Yahoo claimed to be aware of the claims of Peace which said it had obtained the data users, but the company has not acknowledged it been victims of hacking.

The new Yahoo confirmed the hacking incident after running investigation into the matter in question.

"We can confirm that a copy of a number of user information has been stolen from the company's network in 2014 by the actor who backed militia by the state," said Yahoo in a statement.

The announcement comes uncomfortable in the middle of the process of selling Yahoo Internet business worth 4.8 billion US dollars to candidates owner, mobile operator Verizon. Great impact and scale that could affect the new owners.

The latest information is based on information from internal sources, Yahoo user data leaked far above the figure of 500 million. Sources claimed that the amount of actual user data successfully broken, which is between 1 to 3 billion.

According to the unnamed source, the hacker can break into a large amount of data for all Yahoo products are connected to a central database.

"I believe the number is greater than reported," said the source, a former Yahoo executive who no longer works there but claims still in touch with the employees of the company.

Yahoo's central data base linking various Yahoo online services, such as Mail, Finance, and Sport in one place. Therefore, the user data stored in it very much.

As summarized BojezCreative of Business Insider, Monday (10/03/2016), the source said that in 2014 when the hack took place, database Yahoo store between 700 million to 1 billion monthly active users, along with the data of other users who are inactive but has not been removed.

At the end of 2013, CEO Marissa Mayer's time to announce it has global monthly active users of 800 million.

Yahoo's main data base is still used as a means of data storage user login. "That was successfully broken," said the former executives,

Yahoo did not disclose how hackers managed to hack into the system. Clearly, Yahoo has asked all users to change the password as a precaution attempted theft of data.