All posts tagged "Yahoo"

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  Data breach victims can sue Yahoo in the United States: judge

  In March, prosecutors charged two Russian intelligence agents and 2 hackers in connection with 1 of 3 breaches from 2013 to 2016 that affected over 3 billion users

  • Posted March 12, 2018
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  Verizon takes over Yahoo to complete $4.5 billion deal

  Yahoo taking hit on sale in a concession for security lapses

  • Posted June 13, 2017
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  Canadian accused in Yahoo hack has bail hearing

  HAMILTON, Ontario – A Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails said Wednesday he’ll live with his parents and forgo access to phones and any electronic equipment if he’s allowed out on bail. Officials...

  • Posted April 5, 2017
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  Yahoo breach spotlights links between Russian spies, hackers

  MOSCOW – A U.S. indictment of two Russian intelligence agents and two hackers alleged to have stolen more than half a billion U.S. email accounts in 2014 has cast a spotlight on the intertwining of the Russian...

  • Posted March 16, 2017
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  Yahoo salvages Verizon deal with $350 million discount

  NEW YORK — Yahoo is taking a $350 million hit on its previously announced $4.8 billion sale to Verizon in a concession for security lapses that exposed personal information stored in more than 1 billion Yahoo user...

  • Posted February 21, 2017
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  Yahoo issues another warning in fallout from hacking attacks

  Yahoo tied some of the potential compromises to what it has described as the "state-sponsored actor" responsible for the theft of private data from more than 1 billion user accounts in 2013 and 2014

  • Posted February 15, 2017
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  Yahoo to change name, trim board if Verizon deal gets done

  The new name is meant to reflect Yahoo's transformation into a holding company for investments in China's e-commerce leader

  • Posted January 9, 2017
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  Yahoo’s big breach helps usher in an age of hacker anxiety

  SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo has become the worst-case example of an unnerving but increasingly common phenomenon – massive hacks that steal secrets and other potentially revealing information from our personal digital accounts, or from big organizations that...

  • Posted December 15, 2016
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  Yahoo hack serves as reminder to change passwords

  NEW YORK — Yahoo has been hacked – again. News that the struggling internet company was breached back in 2013, and the personal information of more than one billion of its users was stolen, should serve as...

  • Posted December 15, 2016
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  Yahoo Suffers World’s Biggest Hack Affecting 1 Billion Users

  SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company’s own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history. The digital...

  • Posted December 14, 2016