The announcement of the breach at Yahoo comes as Verizon Communications moves forward with its $4.8 billion acquisition of the company.Credit...Mike Blake/Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo announced on Thursday that the account information of at least 500 million users was stolen by hackers two years ago, in the biggest known intrusion of one company’s computer network. In a statement, Yahoo said user
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