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Yahoo clearly couldn’t stand being one-upped by Equifax. Its parent Verizon revealed that the 2013 data breach affected 3 billion accounts—three times more than previously disclosed.

You think Verizon has buyer’s remorse? It placed a bid for Yahoo in the summer of 2016 for $4.5 billion. Then the onslaught began…

September 2016: Yahoo announced that a 2014 hack on its systems had compromised 500 million accounts. 

December 2016: The company revealed an earlier hack (2013), where hackers made off with passwords, usernames, phone numbers, and even DOBs associated with 1 billion more accounts. 

Now, it turns out the hackers were batting 1.000, compromising every singleYahoo account…bringing the total to 3 billion.

Going forward, Oath (Yahoo’s new media home under Verizon) will email the owners of the 2 billion accounts that somehow got lost in the shuffle. We send out emails for a living…trust us, that’s a lot of work.

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