Ron Burgundy Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 By Joseph Menn, Jim Finkle and Dustin Volz SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the summer of 2013, Yahoo Inc launched a project to better secure the passwords of its customers, abandoning the use of a discredited technology for encrypting data known as MD5. In August of that year, hackers got hold of more than a billion Yahoo accounts, stealing the poorly encrypted passwords and other information in the biggest data breach on record. Yahoo only recently uncovered the hack and disclosed it last week. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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