Yahoo! : three billion accounts affected by the 2013 cyber attack

Yahoo! announced on Tuesday that the largest massive cyber attack in its history in 2013 affected all 3 billion user accounts.

L'ensemble des trois milliards de comptes d'utilisateurs Yahoo! ont été affectés par la cyber-attaque de 2013 révélée en 2016, a annoncé mardi 3 octobre le groupe. Désormais propriété de l'opérateur télécoms américain Verizon, Yahoo! avait initialement annoncé que seulement un milliard de comptes avaient été touchés.

Yahoo! ensures that hackers have not stolen passwords, banking data or information related to the means of payment to which the account owners have been subjected in this massive cyber attack - the most important in history. recourse.

These are surveys conducted by independent experts after the integration of Yahoo! in Verizon who discovered that the magnitude of the cyber attack was much greater than what had been revealed so far, says Yahoo! renamed from Oath. The deal almost challenged the takeover of the core business of Yahoo! by telecoms giant Verizon, which finally got to pay less: $ 4.48 billion instead of $ 4.83 billion.

"The company continues to work closely with law enforcement agencies," she said, ensuring "all necessary measures" to ensure the safety of its users.

The new announcements made Tuesday take place in a context of continuing controversy in the United States about Moscow's interference in the US election last year, in order to favor Donald Trump, notably via a piracy of the Democratic party of Hillary Clinton. US intelligence services also accuse the Russians of computer piracy in the United States.