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The first data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 [1] and affected all three billion user accounts. [2] [3] Yahoo announced the breach on December 14, 2016. [4] Marissa Mayer, who was CEO of Yahoo at the time of the breach, testified before Congress in 2017 that Yahoo had been unable to determine who perpetrated the 2013 breach.
5:35 AM PST • February 21, 2017. Comment. After the disclosure of two massive data breaches last year, today Yahoo and Verizon finally confirmed new terms for the sale of Yahoo to Verizon ...
On February 21, 2017, Verizon agreed to lower its purchase price for Yahoo! by $350 million, and share liabilities regarding the investigation into the data breaches. On June 8, 2017, Yahoo shareholders approved the company's sale of some of its Internet assets to Verizon for $4.48 billion. The deal officially closed on June 13, 2017.
The news of that huge hack was topped a few months later when Yahoo also revealed it had suffered an even more massive hack, in August 2013, of more than one billion user accounts. This breach was ...
Verizon will now have to deal with any lawsuit filed by victims of the massive breaches Yahoo suffered between 2013 and 2016. US District Judge Lucy Koh has tossed out Yahoo's argument that the ...
The security warnings to users are being issued as Yahoo faces questions from Congress about what data was lost in the breaches and how the company notified its customers. Sen.
The Equifax data breach occurred between May and July 2017 at the American credit bureau Equifax. Private records of 147.9 million Americans along with 15.2 million British citizens and about 19,000 Canadian citizens were compromised in the breach, making it one of the largest cybercrimes related to identity theft.
Bloomberg via Getty Images. In a regulatory filing, Yahoo revealed some additional details about data breaches that have affected over a billion accounts. Among that information is the news that ...