If you have a Yahoo account, it's time to change your password.
We mean it. If you have a Yahoo email address, click out of this article for a moment and change your password if you have not done so since 2014.
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Yahoo have announced that an attack on its network in 2014 accessed the date of at least 500 million users and could have been 'state sponsored.'
“Based on the ongoing investigation, Yahoo believes that information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen,” explained a statement from the US Internet giant.
Users’ names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, passwords and security questions for verifying an account holder’s identity were all caught up in the data breach.
It's being on "a state-sponsored actor."
“Yahoo is working closely with law enforcement on this matter,” the company said, and advised people to change their passwords immediately.
Do it.
