Yahoo Hack Is Latest Major Cyber-attack
Sumaira FH Published September 23, 2016 | 05:45 PM
PARIS,(APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Sep, 2016 ) - The massive hacking attack on Yahoo revealed Thursday is one of biggest thefts of online users' personal information ever, affecting some 500 million accounts.
It is far from the first of course, here are other notable major corporate hacks of recent years: ======================== US retail giant Target was hit by a computer attack in December 2013 that affected 110 million clients.
Seventy million might have lost personal data including Names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail accounts, while 40 million bank accounts and credit cards were also put at risk.
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