The number of accounts stolen in a hack of Yahoo’s data systems may top 1 billion, more than double the number acknowledged by the company, according to a published report. Business Insider cited an unnamed former Yahoo executive who said all of Yahoo’s products rely on a single user database for authentication. The database held personal details of between 700 million and 1 billion active users at the the time of the hack in 2014, according to the report.
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