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Re:Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts by flukus on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @06:19PM (#13180698)
> It's a huge amount of work, and if the applications were made in 1990's, the code is likely legacy.

Which begs the question, can legacy code survive in an international network?

Re:Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts by haser_au on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @07:49PM (#13181293)
That's the right question to ask. The answer is no, because new security vulnerabilities are disclosed every hour.

A large organisation will implement layered security (otherwise known as layers of the onion) to prevent this type of attack. This means; more secure passwords to access the password database, fewer people with access, rotation of access passwords, auditing of backup storage and encryption, etc etc. Clearly Yahoo's layers of security were all broken to allow this type of theft.