雅虎10億多賬號遭黑客襲擊
A data breach in August 2013 exposed information held in more than 1 billion Yahoo user accounts, the company said Wednesday.
The hacking incident is separate from an intrusion Yahoo reported in September, when the company disclosed 500 million user accounts were exposed in 2014.
"Yahoo believes an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with more than one billion user accounts," Yahoo said in a statement. "Yahoo believes this incident is likely distinct from the incident the company disclosed on September 22, 2016."
The information stolen may include names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdates and security questions and answers. Payment card and bank account data were not believed to have been affected, the company said.
Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, California, is in the process of being acquired by Verizon in a $4.8 billion deal. The company did not identify the "unauthorized third party" involved in the 2013 hacking.雅虎公司星期三說，2013年8月發生的黑客襲擊導致10億個雅虎賬號資料被竊。
雅虎9月份還曾披露2014年發生的一次黑客襲擊，那次有5億個用戶的賬號被襲擊。
雅虎公司在聲明中說：“我們相信，2013年8月，一個未經授權的第三方從10億多個賬戶裏盜竊了資料。我們相信，這起襲擊事件很可能跟我們2016年9月22日公佈的那起襲擊事件是兩次不同的黑客襲擊。”
雅虎說，被盜竊的資料可能包括姓名、電郵地址、電話號碼、生日和驗證身份用的問題和答案，但是支付卡和銀行資料應該沒有受到影響。
