WASHINGTON: A 2013 hack affected all three billion accounts at Yahoo, triple the original estimate, the online giant’s parent company said Tuesday following a new analysis of the incident.

The disclosure from Verizon, which acquired Yahoo’s online assets earlier this year, revised upward the initial estimate of one billion accounts affected.

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