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As far as data breaches go, the one that hit Yahoo back in 2014 was a doozy. When the dust settled, Yahoo revealed that hackers managed to abscond with sensitive information and credentials from upwards of 500 million users.
At the time, the company said it believed a state-sponsored group was behind the attack, and that some of the information obtained during the course of the breach included "names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with [password hashing function] bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions answers."
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