The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. September 23, 2016 Yahoo: 500 Million Accounts Were Hacked --------------------------------------- Meanwhile, Yahoo says as many as 500 million of its accounts were hacked, and that private information including names, phone numbers, passwords and birthdates may have been stolen. It's believed to be the biggest hack of an email provider to date. Yahoo has blamed a "state-sponsored actor." .