Yahoo, now part of Verizon Communications Inc, said on Tuesday that all of its 3 billion user accounts were affected in the August 2013 data theft, following an investigation involving forensic experts. However, the company said the investigation indicated the information that was stolen did not include passwords in clear text, payment card data, or […]
Verizon Completes Yahoo Acquisition…
Verizon on Tuesday completed its $4.5 billion purchase of Yahoo’s Internet assets, which basically means it bought all of Yahoo except for its equity holdings in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan…New names: Yahoo will be integrated into existing Verizon property AOL, which will operate as a new internal business called Oath. The remaining Yahoo asset structure […]
U.S. Charges Two Russian Spies & Two Hackers for Hacking 500M Yahoo Accounts…
The 2014 Yahoo hack disclosed late last year that compromised over 500 million Yahoo user accounts was believed to be carried out by a state-sponsored hacking group. Now, two Russian intelligence officers and two criminal hackers have been charged by the US government in connection with the 2014 Yahoo hack that compromised about 500 million […]
Yahoo Confirms 32M Accounts Hacked…
Yahoo continues its downhill slide as an investigation by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) confirmed more than 32 million accounts were breached in a cookie-forging attack dating back to 2015 and 2016. The news follows two separate massive breaches affecting over 500 million and one billion users in 2014 and 2013 respectively. While […]
Marissa Mayer Resigns From Yahoo Board; Yahoo To Be Renamed To Altaba…
Four-and-a-half years after taking over as CEO of Yahoo, the company announced today, via an 8-K that Marissa Mayer is resigning from the board. Additionally the comany’s name with be change to Altaba (well it’s better than ‘Bahoo’). It’s been a bumpy ride…
Three Years Later Yahoo! Account Subscribers Learn More Than One-Billion Accounts Were Hacked…
Yahoo! says it believes hackers stole data from more than one billion user accounts in August 2013. The Sunnyvale, California, company says it’s a different breach from the one it disclosed in September, when it said 500 million accounts were exposed…
Yahoo! Flaw Allowed Hackers to Read Anyone’s Email…
Yahoo has patched a critical security vulnerability in its Mail service that could have allowed an attacker to spy on any Yahoo user’s inbox. Jouko Pynnönen…reported a DOM based persistent XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) in Yahoo mail, which if exploited, allows an attacker to send emails embedded with malicious code…
How American Companies Enable NSA Surveillance…Like, YAHOO!!!!…
Without the cooperation of American companies — both voluntary and compelled — the National Security Agency’s system of mass surveillance simply would not have been possible…
Yahoo Reports On Yahoo Secretly Scanning All Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence Agencies…
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
Internet Security Experts Warn YAHOO Password Breach Could Have ‘Ripple Effects’ for Millions…
As investors and investigators weigh the damage of Yahoo’s massive breach to the internet icon, information security experts worry that the record-breaking haul of password data could be used to open locks up and down the web.