Summary
CERT-UK is aware of reports of an attack on the technology firm Yahoo in which up to 500 million user accounts were breached.
In August 2016, a hacker known as “Peace” was reportedly attempting to sell information from 200 million Yahoo accounts breached in an attack from 2014. Initially believed to be speculation, Yahoo has now revealed that a breach did take place compromising the data of 500 million accounts. This is believed to be the biggest public breach of…
Link: Data breach of 500m Yahoo accounts
Source: NCSC Alerts
