Growing up in central Ohio, I often drove past a small McDonald's and wondered how that little store sold 65 billion hamburgers. And, every so often, the number would change, much the way the price signs at the gas stations changed - a lone guy with a long pole and a giant number at the end of the stick.
I thought about that today when Yahoo disclosed that it 2013, all 3 billion of its acocunts were hacked. Yep, that's right. Every. Single. Yahoo. Account.
Hacked.
Which means that somewhere in Sunnyvale, California, there may well be a guy with a big "3" on a stick, patiently trying to wiggle it into a spot that previously held a "1" (which was the perceived extent of the breach until today's announcement).
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