Pre-reading questions:
- What email account do you have (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail)?
- What engine do you use for searching (Google, Yahoo, Safari, etc.)?
More than one billion Yahoo accounts were hacked last 2013. Yahoo users’ phone numbers, passwords, security questions, and backup email addresses were stolen. It is by far the biggest incident of data stealing. All the information has been for sale on the dark web. But now that many people know about it, the price will become cheaper. Investigation says the group of hackers called Group E stole all the personal information from Yahoo. Group E is based in Eastern Europe. They have also hacked Dropbox, Tumblr, and VK.com before.
Vocabulary:
hack – [verb] to gain access to a computer illegally
dark web – [noun] a term used for a collection of websites that cannot be accessed by a normal browser
cheaper – [adjective] lower price
based – [verb] to have a particular place as the place where a person lives
incident – [noun] an unexpected and usually unpleasant thing that happen
True or False:
- More than one billion Yahoo accounts were hacked last 2012.
- Yahoo users’ phone numbers, passwords, security questions, and backup email addresses were modified.
- It is by far the biggest incident of data stealing.
- All of the information has been stored in the dark web.
- Group E is based in Eastern Europe.