Lkaos :
What's 2.5 million in 145 million? 0.5% miss, stop making a big deal out of Equifax's number... Now, Yahoo's 3 billion over 1 billion is not only a 100% miss...That is the one you should be whorried about!
Technically it's 1.724%. But while it may seem statistically insignificant, it's
very significant to those extra people.
And there's the question of scale on this. Breaching Yahoo means they may have had access to your
email account, but not every Yahoo account was necessarily tied into any kind of financial account (not to mention that, once you reset your password/changed your challenge questions & answers, you were no longer affected by the breach).
In contrast, the Equifax breach gave them
instant access to your personal information: name, SSN, address, (in some cases) bank account & loan account numbers, etc. -- all of the information needed for them to access your bank records & steal your identity...or worse, set up new credit card & other bank accounts technically in your name. And while the bank account numbers & bank access might be able to be changed, your SSN
can't be changed. So for those affected by Equifax, that's a permanent piece of their personal information that is out there for a hacker to find.