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200 million yahoo logins may be for sale a seller going by the name of peace of mind is currently selling what is claimed to be 200 million Yahoo user credentials the data is available for sale publicly at the price of three bitcoins that's around 1800 u.s. dollars or around 1,400 British pounds the sellers also known as peace this hacker has been connected to the LinkedIn breach that's a mark zuckerberg Twitter account hacked peace also has ties to a myspace act that compromised over 300 million accounts and a Twitter breach affecting over 70 million accounts yahoo says it is aware of the sale but has not confirmed whether the data is legitimate the breach was first reported by motherboard the publication also obtained five thousand records and it's limited tests of two dozen motherboard found many to be valid Yahoo credentials peace told motherboard that he's privately traded the Yahoo data that he's now publicly selling he also said that data is most likely from 2012 so should you panic if you have or had a yahoo account according to Zack Whittaker security editor for ZDNet maybe not he says that data sold by piece are hit or miss since the data could date back to 2012 it's likely that the majority of credentials for sale may not work Whitaker added that the Yahoo data was not likely due to a new hack it could be the product of a larger hack someone would find all the yahoo email addresses related to that hack and tests already exposed passwords in the case that password was used on multiple sites and that does it for us amaya's Akhtar and you can keep up with the hottest tech news at cnet com / update