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Yahoo announces hackers stole data from more than 1 billion user accounts

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Yahoo announces hackers stole data from more than 1 billion user accounts

NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo says it believes hackers stole data from more than one billion user accounts in August 2013.

The Sunnyvale, California, company says it’s a different breach from the one it disclosed in September, when it said 500 million accounts were exposed. That new hack revelation raises questions about whether Verizon will try to change the terms of its $4.8 billion proposed acquisition of Yahoo.

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