Yahoo says another billion user accounts were hacked in possibly the biggest hack of all time
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This is a separate hack than the one that Yahoo announced back in September, in which as many as 500 million user accounts were compromised.
With a billion accounts at risk, that would make this the biggest breach of all time - bigger than the Myspace breach of 360 million user accounts and 427 million passwords.
"The company has not been able to identify the intrusion associated with this theft," Yahoo says.
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