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Filed here are the firms whose record of you did not begin with a sign-up. What holds the file together is the device rather than an account, so there may be nothing to log into and no delete button. The right to ask does not depend on having an account.

Reported incidents

Data from every one of its 3 billion accounts stolen in 2013

2016-12-14

Affected Yahoo user accounts (Mail, Flickr, Tumblr and other Yahoo services)

On 14 December 2016 Yahoo disclosed that data tied to more than one billion user accounts had been stolen in August 2013. The data could include names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, MD5-hashed passwords and security questions and answers. Yahoo said this was likely distinct from a 2014 theft of about 500 million accounts it had disclosed on 22 September 2016. In October 2017 Yahoo said all of its roughly 3 billion accounts were affected by the 2013 theft. In 2018 the SEC fined Yahoo's successor Altaba 35 million dollars for failing to disclose the 2014 breach for about two years.

People affected typically ask Yahoo to confirm whether their information was included, and which categories.

The verified route

dpo-contact@yahooinc.com
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https://uk.help.yahoo.com/kb/account?spf=1
Privacy request form

DÆTRAX is a personal data accountability ledger: a dated record of which companies hold your personal data, what you asked them to do about it, and what they claimed in reply.