Yahoo reports losing data on 500 million accounts in 2014 hack

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Yahoo lost information on 500 million user accounts to a hacker who stole the data in 2014, the company reported on Thursday.

That information includes names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and security questions and answers, and includes both encrypted and unencrypted data.

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