When it seemed that the soap opera of the accounts hacked to Yahoo was over, once the company is in the hands of Verizon, it seems that it still has a long way to go. The different account hacks that Yahoo had suffered years ago, and revealed a few months before going on sale, were one of the reasons that Verizon claimed to lower the purchase price.
At first, the company claimed that the accounts hacked had been 500 million. Shortly after, that number rose to 1.500 million, a real outrage but according to the latest report that Verizon has presented, they were not real figures either. A company spokesperson has stated that the hack suffered by Yahoo in 2013 affected each and every one of the company's email accounts, just over 3.000 million.
Verizon will be banging against a wall after seeing more than $ 4.500 billion spent buying a company whose image was badly damaged due to neglect and incompetence in protecting your information, in addition to repeatedly lying about the magnitude of the hack he had suffered years before.
Hackers who accessed Yahoo accounts, had access to the emails, their passwords, real names of the users, telephone number, date of birth ... in addition to any other information, such as the answers to security questions, becoming the largest attack that a company has suffered from this guy in all of history.
After discovering that the hack had affected all users, Verizon is sending an email to all of its customers urging them to change the access password immediatelya, to the water that Yahoo did when it announced the hacking of 500 million accounts and later raised it to 1.50 million.