Yahoo data breach
The Yahoo breach happened on July 11, 2012 and exposed 453,427 accounts. 2 kinds of data were exposed.
Overview
- Site
- yahoo.com
- Breach date
- July 11, 2012
- Recorded on
- December 4, 2013
- Accounts exposed
- 453,427
- Exposed data
- Email addresses, Passwords
- Risk score
- 64 out of 100
Risk based on the exposed data
This breach scores 64 out of 100. The score is driven mostly by Passwords, Email addresses.
The risk score is a guide to how dangerous a breach is, judged by the kinds of data exposed. The number of accounts is not included.
Breaches from the same period
- War Inc. (2012-07-04, 1,020,136 accounts)
- Dropbox (2012-07-01, 68,648,009 accounts)
- Disqus (2012-07-01, 17,551,044 accounts)
What affected users should do
- Change your Yahoo password, and also change it on any other service where you used the same password. You can create a new one with the password generator.
- Turn on two-factor authentication for your login.
This site organizes publicly available information about data breaches. Data as of October 6, 2017. Breach dates are as originally listed; when only the month is known, the date is recorded as the 1st.