Tag: Yahoo

March 17, 2017

When governments turn to private hackers to carry out state-sponsored attacks, as the FBI alleges Russia did in the 2014 breach of Yahoo, they’re taking a big risk. On the one hand, it gives them a bit of plausible deniability […]

March 16, 2017

Wednesday’s indictments in the United States of four people in a 2014 cyber attack on Yahoo Inc. provides the clearest details yet on what some U.S. officials say is a symbiotic relationship between Moscow’s security services and private Russian hackers. […]

March 2, 2017

If your company has experienced a data breach, it’s probably a good idea to thoroughly investigate it promptly. Unfortunately, Yahoo didn’t, according to a new internal investigation. The internet pioneer, which reported a massive data breach involving 500 million user […]

December 15, 2016

Security researchers are disturbed it took Yahoo three years to discover that details of over 1 billion user accounts had been stolen back in 2013. It means that someone — possibly a state-sponsored actor — had access to one of […]

November 10, 2016

Yahoo said investigators were looking into the possibility that some people within the company knew at the time about the late 2014 theft of information of at least 500 million user accounts. Law enforcement authorities on Monday also “began sharing […]

October 7, 2016

Verizon may be getting cold feet with its acquisition of Yahoo. Reportedly, it’s asking for a $1 billion discount on the original $4.8 billion deal for the Internet company. Recent news about Yahoo’s massive data breach and its alleged secret […]

October 5, 2016

Reports of a secret Yahoo program to search through customers’ incoming emails has spurred other tech companies to deny ever receiving a similar request from the U.S. government. The program, reportedly created last year through a classified U.S. order, involves […]

September 29, 2016

Common criminals, not state-sponsored hackers, carried out the massive 2014 data breach that exposed information about millions of Yahoo user accounts, a security firm said Wednesday. Yahoo has blamed state actors for the attack, but it was actually elite hackers-for-hire […]

September 23, 2016

A hacker’s attempt to sell user data he claimed was stolen from Yahoo actually led the company to uncover a far more severe breach. Yahoo confirmed Thursday a data breach, which affects at least 500 million users, but it could […]

August 2, 2016

Yahoo users might want to reset their passwords. A hacker claims to have stolen the login information for 200 million Yahoo accounts and is selling them on the black market. The stolen records are up for sale on TheRealDeal, a […]