How much is the hacked Yahoo database worth? Try $300,000

It’s been yet another bad week for Yahoo, the perpetually beleaguered internet giant based in Sunnyvale, California. This past September, we learned of an enormous 2014 hack into its user database that compromised 500 million accounts. That would be the tip of the iceberg, as this week another larger hack came to light — a staggering billion accounts were hacked in 2013.