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December 15, 2016 12:01 pm GMT

5 things to do right now if your Yahoo account was hacked

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If you've just logged into your Yahoo email and read an urgent security letter from the Yahoo team saying that your account has been compromised, you are one of the more than a billion users that have been hacked. 

The massive data breach actually happened in August 2013 but was just revealed by the company. 

SEE ALSO: More than 1 billion Yahoo users hacked in new security breach, company reveals

It's separate to an incident from 2014 and is believed to affect names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, MD5-hashed passwords (a form of encryption now widely considered insecure) and security question answers, according to the companyRead more...

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