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An estimated three billion Yahoo accounts were compromised during a data breach in 2013, the company said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The figure tripled the number revealed by the company in 2016.<\/p>\n

The revised figure was issued after Yahoo admitted in December that over 1 billion users\u2019 data, including names, email addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth had been impacted by the August 2013 breach.<\/p>\n

Verizon, the U.S. communications giant that purchased Yahoo earlier this year, said in a statement that it had found \u201call accounts that existed at the time of the August 2013 theft were likely affected.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company did not provide any details about who may have been behind the attack except for saying that an \u201cunauthorised party\u201d stole the data.<\/p>

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Although credit card data and bank account information were not believed to have been affected, Yahoo encouraged users to review account statements and monitor credit reports.<\/p>\n

The attack is separate from the one disclosed in September 2016 involving data on 500 million Yahoo users.<\/p>\n

Yahoo said it believed that the attack was carried out by \u201ca state-sponsored actor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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