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September 28, 2016

Yahoo password breach could have ripple effects

  • One expert compares it to an ecological disaster — but more like global warming than an earthquake.
    • By RAPHAEL SATTER
    Associated Press

    LONDON — As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo's massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts worry that the record-breaking haul of password data could be used to open locks up and down the web.

    While it's unknown to what extent the stolen data has been or will be circulating, giant breaches can send ripples of insecurity across the internet.


     
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