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Another Yahoo Security Breach Affects a Billion Accounts

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Christine Hall
Dec 14, 2016

After announcing in September that 500 million accounts had been compromised in a 2014 security breach, the company announces today that an additional billion accounts have been hacked in a separate incident.

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Christine Hall

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