September 22, 2016 10:39 pm GMT
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What this Yahoo data breach means for you
On Thursday afternoon Yahoo confirmed a massive data leak of at least 500 million user accounts, which is a very big deal.
Though the data breach obviously spells trouble for those with YahooMail accounts, users with hacked accounts need to keep in mind that the breach goes so much further.
Yahoo owns a bunch of other major sites like Flickr, Tumblr and fantasy football site Rivals.com, which means the 500 million users affected by the data breach also have to worry about their personal information associated with all additional Yahoo services.
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