YAHOO'S EMAIL ACCOUNTS GOT HACKED

Yahoo Inc. has admitted that email accounts of its users were hacked by a malicious computer software. The internet giant states on its official blog that attackers were attempting to access accounts by using data from third party websites.
According to comScore, Yahoo is the second-largest email service globally, after Gmail. There are 273 million Yahoo email accounts globally, including 81 million in the United States alone. Yahoo has not admitted to the number of accounts being affected but states that the hackers were looking for information in the most recent emails sent by the users.