Hackers stole the personal data associated with at least 500m Yahoo accounts, the Sunnyvale, California-based company confirmed on Thursday. Details including names, passwords, email addresses, phone numbers and security questions were taken from the company’s network in late 2014 by what was believed to be a state-sponsored hacking group. The company is investigating the breach with law enforcement but currently believes that credit card or bank details were not included in the stolen data. The company has also invalidated affected users’ security questions so that they can’t be used to access accounts. Yahoo announced it was investigating a data breach earlier this summer but at the time thought just 200m user accounts were affected.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2016 19:24 UTC