Yahoo’s billion-user database sold on the Dark Web for just $300,000 According to Reportes

Yahoo’s billion-user database  sold on the Dark Web for just $300,000 According to Reportes

The New York Times reports that a billion-user database was sold on the Dark Web last August for $300,000.

It’s wonder to know that it only costs $300,000 to be able to threaten a billion people’s online presences ,which means each account is only worth $0.0003 to hackers who can ruin your life online in a matter of minutes.

Yahoo also doesn’t yet know who made off with all the data from the attack in 2013, which is said to be the largest breach of any company ever.

It consist of full names, passwords, birth dates and phone numbers, the database also contains security questions and backup email addresses that could help with resetting forgotten passwords.