SO YAHOO WAS HACKED IN 2014! Yahoo has confirmed that hackers have stolen the personal information of at least 500 million of its accounts accounts over the past two years after a security breach in 2014. “A recent investigation by Yahoo has confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company’s network in late 2014 by what it believes is a state-sponsored actor,” said Bob Lors Yahoo’s CISO. “The account information may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers. “The ongoing investigation suggests that stolen information did not include unprotected passwords, payment card data, or bank account information; payment card data and bank account information are not stored in the system that the investigation has found to be affected.” So far Yahoo said its investigation does no...