How Russian hackers breached your Yahoo Mail account

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The Department of Justice on Wednesday identified four people, including two Russian spies and two criminal hackers, as the main suspects behind one of the biggest data breaches in the world. Yahoo was hacked in 2014 but the company only disclosed it two years later, when it confirmed that more than 500 million accounts were breached. A report explains how hackers were able to breach into your Yahoo Mail account, revealing that they did not get access to all 500 million accounts at the same time, and that Yahoo could have prevented the damage had it taken faster actions against the intruders.

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