Yahoo now says all 3 billion of its accounts affected by security breach

Yahoo revealed Tuesday that a massive cyberattack it suffered in 2013 was much more widespread than it previously said, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The web portal now says all 3 billion Yahoo accounts were compromised in the breach. The company initially said only 1 billion had been hit when it first disclosed the hack last December.

The compromised information includes usernames, passwords, and some telephone numbers and dates of birth, the paper reported.

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