Yahoo may confirm huge data breach

Yahoo could confirm in the coming days a data breach in the accounts of several hundred million users, as reported by Recode citing unnamed sources. The breach may affect over 200 million Yahoo accounts, including highly sensitive information such as names, passwords, birth dates or other email addresses. 

The confirmation would follow a Yahoo investigation into claims that surfaced in early August that a hacker with the name "Peace" was trying to sell data, as referred by USA Today.

Speaking at the time, the company said in a statement, "We are committed to protecting the security of our users’ information and we take any such claim very seriously. "Our security team is working to determine the facts."

The confirmation could have serious implications on the sales process ($4.8 billion) of the core Yahoo business to media giant Verizon.