The American group "Yahoo!" announced Thursday, September 22, 2016 hacking more than 500 million accounts of its users in 2014.
"Names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and passwords were among the hacked data," the company said in a statement, adding that the hacking was conducted by a entity related to a state without giving details about it.
The US group, which claimed to have contacted affected users, said it is working closely with the relevant US authorities to determine the circumstances of the computer attack.
He also assured that the investigation found no evidence indicating that the entity in question is currently present in the computer system of "Yahoo!" said the statement of the US company.
This piracy comes following the announcement in July, the redemption of the pioneer of the Internet by the Verizon telecommunications company for $ 4.8 billion.
Source: Iliasnotes.info and Aujourd'hui.ma
