- Apr 21, 2016
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Yahoo users may have had their accounts accessed by hackers without them even having to use passwords to get in, Yahoo is notifying users once more. Instead of passwords, hackers are believed to have used forged cookies instead of passwords.
The issue had already been disclosed in the November 2016 SEC filing, but considering the size of the breaches the company disclosed in September and December, which affected 500 million accounts and 1 billion accounts, respectively, the issue went pretty much unnoticed.
"Based on the ongoing investigation, we believe a forged cookie may have been used in 2015 or 2016 to access your account. We have connected some of the cookie forging activity to the same s... (read more)
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The issue had already been disclosed in the November 2016 SEC filing, but considering the size of the breaches the company disclosed in September and December, which affected 500 million accounts and 1 billion accounts, respectively, the issue went pretty much unnoticed.
"Based on the ongoing investigation, we believe a forged cookie may have been used in 2015 or 2016 to access your account. We have connected some of the cookie forging activity to the same s... (read more)
Continue reading...
