New leak may have exposed millions of Yahoo users

Yahoo may go public later this week to talk about a huge leak of information from its users, as reported "several" sources at Recode.

The site says that hundreds of million accounts were compromised. One of the sources, when asked about the extent of the problem, said he is "worse" than when it was reported in August that a hacker was selling information from 200 million Yahoo users

At that time the hacker - dubbed Peace - said to have credentials that were leaked in 2012. They were names, passwords, birth dates and email addresses. And Yahoo said just be aware of the news, without confirming the veracity of it.

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Now, Yahoo would be holding the alert to deal with it with government officials and playing legal action, but the sources of Recode comment that may even be too late to ask those affected to change their passwords.

The current leakage is so serious, says Recode, which could affect Yahoo's sale plans. The company would have closed according to Verizon, but as the security problem affects just the business that is at stake, there may be a discount on the final value - which is around US $ 4.8 billion.