It is the largest attack in Internet history. Wykradziono data billion Yahoo – Gazeta.pl

Yahoo Problems continued. As recently as September, the American company admitted that in 2014, hackers stole the data of more than 500 million users of its website. Now, the light came another giant attack, which covered a billion user accounts Yahoo.

In a published statement, Yahoo said that hackers were able to find available information, such as: first and last name, telephone number, password. Company provides, however, that there was no leak of financial information, such as credit card numbers or Bank accounts.

“This is, without a doubt, the biggest leak of data with which we are faced,” said Troy hunter, an expert on cyber security in an interview with the broadcasting company of bi-BI-si. “Already the attack that took 500 million users, was the largest in history. That number has now doubled, which is unprecedented,” – said the expert.

traces of the attack were discovered during an internal investigation that was associated with an earlier data breach, which was reported a few months ago.

Yahoo said that the author of the attack was available to the native code. Then made those cookies, which allowed him to access user accounts Yahoo, without having to enter any password.

“Independent experts have determined already have an account in which there have been the substitution of cookies,” says Bob Lord with Yahoo. “

Yahoo emphasizes that all users whose accounts were compromised, already had been warned in advance about the need to change the password for logging in to the service. It would not hurt, however, to change them again to be sure.

If logowaliście the same password for different web services, we highly recommend you to make password changes, also on these pages.

If the data is hacked, will be offered for sale, information on this subject should appear, in particular, on this page.

data breaches are unable to protect even the biggest giants of the Internet industry. This is evidenced by the last effective attack on services such as LinkedIn, MySpace or popular Dropboksa. Should remember this and use strong and unique passwords.

a strong password should consist of several characters, among them small and large letters, numbers and special characters. It should also be remembered principle, one account = one password. The use of the same password for all services, it is a gift for criminals. It’s like we handed them the keys to our network person.

it Should also – where possible – to include the so-called two-step verification account. This service is offered by many popular online services, in particular Gmail and Facebook. The verification mechanism is an additional layer of account protection. During login the user must enter a user name and password and verification code sent by SMS to the phone number specified at registration.