Yahoo confirms hackers stole personal data with 1 billion users, but are not able to detect security breaches

Yahoo confirms hackers stole personal data with 1 billion users, but are not able to detect security breaches

security chief told, the embattled Internet giant Yahoo can not determine how hackers can steal data from one billion invoices that have been called the largest world data breach.

Last security disaster raises doubts over $ 64000000000 purchase Verizon Yahoo, which made a statement, in the American media that it would "consider the impact of these new developments to reach a final conclusion."

The statement yesterday by Yahoo following a report in September, a separate attack, in which the "state-funded" hackers to steal data from 500 million accounts.

Head of Security Service Yahoo Bob Lord, in his blog on the latest big hack, said the theft of personal data from one billion accounts were opened when an external forensic experts began investigating the Yahoo system.

The information stolen included names, email addresses, phone numbers, date of birth, password hashes (encrypted with the system now widely regarded as vulnerable to hackers), and in some cases, encrypted security question and answer or non-encrypted.