yahoo.com
Medium Impact•
5,780,264 records affected
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BreachAware
Description
In March 2017, dark web vendor SunTzu583 was found selling over 5.7 million Yahoo user accounts – offering a third of the data set of $100.48, or the entire lot for $250.48. The vendor claims that each listing contains unique accounts – "however, after scanning the sample data, we found the majority of accounts were disabled while some were still working and stolen from MySpace, LinkedIn and Adobe data breaches," HackRead reported. Since the legitimacy of the data cannot be confirmed, this breach is labelled as "Unverified".
What to do if you're affected
- 1.Change your password immediately if you have an account with this service
- 2.Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) wherever possible
- 3.Check if your email appears in the breach using Have I Been Pwned
- 4.Monitor your accounts for suspicious activity
- 5.Consider using a password manager to generate unique passwords