The 2016 ήταν μια πολύ δύσκολη χρονιά για την Yahoo που βίωσε σε δύο ξεχωριστές παραβιάσεις με θύματα 500 εκατομμύρια χρήστες την μία και 1 δισεκατομμύριο χρήστες στη συνέχεια. Οι hackers που κατάφεραν να υποκλέψουν τις λεπτομέρειες από 1 δισεκατομμύριο λογαριασμούς χρηστών της εταιρείας, σύμφωνα με τους New York Times they sold the database on the Dark Web last August for $300.000.
The information comes from Andrew Komarov, head of the intelligence office at security firm InfoArmor. The researcher told the NYT that three buyers, including two prominent ones Spammers and another who could be involved in regular espionage operations bought the entire database for $300.000 from a hacker group believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe.
The amount of 300.000 dollars is considered humiliating, for a database containing one billion accounts. This means buyers paid for each 0,0003 cents account of the dollar to hackers.
Note that in addition to full names, passwords, birthdates and phone numbers, the database contains security and backup features in email addresses that could help reset your forgotten passwords.
Of course this data can be used in attacks Phishing which may contain accurate personal information, and target bank accounts, credit cards anything else you can imagine.
Komarov told Bloomberg that more than 150.000 accounts of the US government and military were found in the database, which means that hackers could threaten national security.
Yahoo, on the other hand, said it was unable to confirm Komarov's claims yet. Meanwhile, the FBI said in a statement that it is investigating her infringement.
It will be interesting to see what this revelation brings to the future of Yahoo, which is preparing to be transferred to a new owner. THE Verizon even before the announcement of the hack he offered 4.8 billion to buy the company.