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Yahoo Confirms Half A Billion User Accounts Hacked, Blames "State-Sponsored Actor" For Bre

09-22-2016 • http://www.zerohedge.com, Tyler Durden

Earlier today we reported that based on a ReCode announcement, some 200 million Yahoo user accounts (yes, apparently Yahoo has that many users) may have been hacked.

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2016 Reality: Lazy Authentication Still the Norm

12-29-2015 • Krebs on Security

My PayPal account was hacked on Christmas Eve. The perpetrator tried to further stir up trouble by sending my PayPal funds to a hacker gang tied to the jihadist militant group ISIS. Although the intruder failed to siphon any funds,