Yahoo’s UK arm has been fined £250,000 ($335,000) by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over a data breach affecting more than 500 million users which took place in 2014.…
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Altaba Fined $35m for Yahoo Breach Notification Failings
Phil Muncaster The company formerly known as Yahoo has agreed to pay a $35m penalty to the Securities and Exchange Commission after failing to notify the market promptly about a breach…
Yahoo Agrees $80m Securities Class Action Settlement
Phil Muncaster Yahoo has agreed to pay $80m to settle a class action suit filed by investors relating to data breaches affecting three billion customers. Several shareholders filed the suit in…
Canadian admits hacking Gmail
Karim Baratov pleads guilty to ransacking web accounts for ‘mystery’ paymasters By Iain Thomson A Canadian hacker for hire has admitted ransacking webmail accounts for miscreants accused of orchestrating the…
Inside the Russian hack of Yahoo: How they did it
A single click was all it took to launch one of the biggest data breaches ever By Martyn Williams One mistaken click. That’s all it took for hackers aligned with the…
Yahoo 2013 data breach hit 'all three billion accounts'
Yahoo has said that all of its three billion user accounts were affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013. The company, which was taken over by Verizon earlier…