The biggest baddest worst hacks and vulnerabilities of 2024 all that coming up now on threat wires greetings I'm Shannon Morse and this is threat wire for December 26 2024 your summary of the threats to our security privacy and Internet freedom our patreon is over at patreon.com slash threat wire and that is the best way to support the show and help us reach our next goal I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season this week is my annual 2024 roundup of the biggest and worst hacks of the year the biggest vulnerabilities announced and the biggest news so let's get right into it with the first story so this one is all about Yahoo it's on our list it actually happened a few years ago but the numbers were updated just this year originally hacked in 2024 and 2024 Yahoo announced in 2024 that over 1 billion accounts were hit over their ongoing investigation though they then determined in October that over 3 billion accounts were affected in the previous hack not actually 1 billion so basically all yahoo accounts were hacked data included unencrypted security questions and answers' names email addresses phone numbers dates of birth and hashed passwords which although hashed would technically be reverse engineered with enough time yahoo could not confirm who was behind the hack but they did release a statement advising customers to change their passwords across different sites and while deleting your yahoo email address might sound like a really good idea yahoo actually recycles those after 30 days so it was advised to not delete it and instead change the password add two-factor authentication and leave it open by the numbers this makes yahoo the biggest hack in history and now it's time for the biggest days and...
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