Yahoo Hackers Selling the 1 Billion Stolen Accounts for $300,000

​Yahoo acknowledged yesterday that hackers breached its systems and stole approximately 1 billion accounts, and now it turns out that the full database is available for purchase online. The NYT writes that the 1 billion accounts that were stolen from Yahoo were sold on the Dark Web in August for $300,000, and what’s worse is that there were three different buyers who agreed to pay the price to gain control of the database. Andrew Komarov, chief intelligence office at security firm InfoArmor, said two of the buyers were “prominent spammers,” while the third is believed to be involved in espionage attacks and might be planning to use the 1 billion accounts for similar tactics. The price of the database, however, is believed to have dropped substantially after ...