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troubled Internet giant yahoo has taken out the all-time record for biggest cyber security attack after revealing that 1 billion of its user accounts were compromised the mammoth breach beats out the previous record of 500 million accounts hacked from a single company that record was also set by Yahoo only three months ago I can't believe we're saying this again but if you're a yahoo user you need to change your password now while the passwords were encrypted the trove of data also included unencrypted security questions so if your childhood pass all your mother's maiden name is the key to unlocking all your accounts it's time to change that info to in October the company came under fire after reports surfaced that it had built tools to surveil customers emails for us intelligence and while it's been staring down massive cyber security threats requests from national security officials and uncomfortable questions from its own users yahoo has also been trying to square away a massive acquisition deal with verizon the US carrier agreed to by yahoo for 4.8 billion dollars in july but now it says it will review the impact of this new development before reaching any final conclusions you can find out more on cnet com and from Sydney I'm Clare Riley