![]() On August 1, a hacker named "Peace" claimed to have breached 200 million Yahoo usernames and passwords from a hack in 2012, and offered to sell them on the dark web after trying to do the same with MySpace and LinkedIn accounts.Ī person familiar with the situation said Peace's assertion prompted Yahoo to initiate an internal investigation. "When a company has allowed their customers' data to fall into the hands of criminals, the resulting lack of trust is difficult to repair," CEO Ebba Blitz said in a statement. The encryption provider did a study that found about 97 percent of Americans lose trust in companies like Yahoo after massive data breaches. It will take Yahoo at least several months before it starts regaining users' trust, according to research from Alertsec. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter account was hacked using a similar method after the passwords of more than 100 million LinkedIn members were leaked.
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