More than One million Yahoo accounts have been hacked
The White House has said the FBI is investigating the cyber attack on the internet company Yahoo – which could have resulted the theft of data from more than a billion accounts, reports BBC World Service.
It’s the second security breach revealed this year – in September Yahoo gave details of an attack in 2014 which jeopardised 500 million user-accounts.
Shares in the company are down by more than 5% on Thursday.
Earlier this year, Yahoo agreed a $4.8bn (£3.8bn) deal to sell its digital operations to Verizon communications which was expected to be closed by March, but media reports suggest this could now be in danger.
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