If you had a Yahoo account in 2013 then you’ve been hacked

Last December, Yahoo announced that it’d found a breach of data in August of 2013 of more than 1 billion user accounts. Today, it’s updated that number to all 3 billion user accounts.

That’s right, if you owned a Yahoo email account in August 2013, consider yourself hacked.

Yahoo says that the hack exposed user account information; which means names, email addresses, hashed passwords, birthdays, phone numbers, and unencrypted security questions and answers. Fortunately, the hack did not include passwords in clear text, neither did it include bank or credit card information.

This is the most severe Yahoo breach, but it is not the only one. 500 million accounts were breached in late 2014, and earlier this year, Yahoo warned that some users may have had their accounts hacked as early as 2016.

We have a detailed security guide for what to do if you have a Yahoo account to contain your personal damage. If you have a Yahoo account, we highly recommend you check it out.

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