On September 26, 2016, Yahoo! announced to the world that they were the victim of the largest systematic account compromise in the history of the Internet. Attackers managed to penetrate Yahoo!’s network as early as 2014 and steal account information belonging to more than 500 million Yahoo! users.

News of the breach at Yahoo! rocked the cybersecurity world as use of the service is so widespread, ranging from hosting personal e-mail accounts on the Yahoo.com domain to managing thousands of fantasy football, baseball, and basketball leagues on their servers, and hosting millions of photographs through their Flickr service.

Indeed, it’s hard to imagine an American Internet user who hasn’t had some need to create a Yahoo! account over the past decade.

Published February 21, 2017 on certmag.com

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