After revealing last year that a data breach in 2013 affected its one billion user accounts, Yahoo has now announced that all of its users — nearly 3 billion at that time — were impacted by the massive hacking.
According to Jason Hart, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for data protection at Gemalto, the Yahoo breach would be the largest data breach of all time.
“While it is ‘news’ that Yahoo is making another announcement about its 2013 breach, it should be more concerning that it’s taken almost four years to get to the bottom of a breach of this magnitude,” Hart said in a statement.
“If Yahoo, one of the largest tech companies in the world, struggled with security, how can other companies combat these bad actors?” he added.
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