Yahoo says details on at least 500 million accounts were stolen in late 2014. The company blames the attack on a “state-sponsored actor,” but it did not name a suspect country. The theft of account credentials apparently is the biggest that’s ever been discovered, overtaking the exposure of 359 million MySpace accounts in 2008. The FBI is investigating the breach, but experts say it’s a confident assertion for a cyberattack that’s notoriously difficult to attribute. The breach disclosure comes at a sensitive time as Yahoo winds through legal processes prior to its pending $4.8 billion sale to Verizon.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/massive-yahoo-data-breach-shatters-records-a-9415