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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by jlgaddis on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:07PM (#15396203)
The article mentions this:

> The number of individuals affected by the 2013 attack is smaller than 3 billion, because some people​ have multiple accounts ...

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Re:Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts to 3B by ktta on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:20PM (#15396308)
Well 'smaller' and 'close to 50%' will have different effects, and I'm willing to bet that the number of individuals affected will be a lot, lot less than 3bn.
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