Yahoo probes possible huge data breach
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36952257
Usernames, passwords and dates of birth are being offered for
sale for three bitcoins (1,360). Using the name Peace, the
hacker said the data was "most likely" from 2012. Yahoo said
it was taking the claim "very seriously" and was "working to
determine the facts". "Yahoo works hard to keep our users
safe, and we always encourage our users to create strong
passwords, or give up passwords altogether by using Yahoo
Account Key, and use different passwords for different
platforms," it said in a statement. The passwords appear to be
hashed - which means they have been scrambled - but the hacker
has also published details of the algorithm allegedly used for
the hash.
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