After Yahoo discovered that one billion accounts were affected, it should not have been a stretch to consider that all of the company’s user accounts had been compromised, he said. Verizon said in a statement Tuesday that, with the assistance of outside forensic experts, it had determined that all Yahoo’s user accounts were affected. With the stolen data, fraudsters have a higher chance of gaining access to the victims’ bank accounts, said Frances Zelazny, the vice president of marketing at BioCatch, a security start-up. In March, the Department of Justice charged four men, including two Russian intelligence officers, with the 2014 breach. The stolen data was also used to spy on Russian government officials and business executives, federal prosecutors said.

Source: New York Times October 03, 2017 22:00 UTC