500 million accounts — that’s half a Billion users!
That’s how many Yahoo accounts were compromised in a massive data breach dating back to 2014 by what was believed to be a “state sponsored” hacking group.
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Over a month ago, a hacker was found to be selling login information related to 200 million Yahoo accounts on the Dark Web, although Yahoo acknowledged that the breach was
Yahoo confirmed that in 2014 state-sponsored hackers stole information associated with 500 million accounts from its network.
Yahoo is expected to confirm a data breach that exposed hundreds of millions of credentials dating back to 2012.
Yahoo says that it is investigating an alleged massive breach of its users’ credential that are available for sale online.
Finally, Someone has come forward to buy Yahoo! Guess Who?
The telecommunication giant Verizon.
Yes, Verizon Communications Inc. is reportedly closing in on a deal to acquire Yahoo’s core business for about $5 Billion, according to a report from Bloomberg.
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Since the agreement between the companies has not been finalized, it is unclear at this moment that which Yahoo’s assets
Yahoo releases a second wave of unsealed documents tied to its battle with the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Yahoo deployed a stable version of its Account Key mechanism on Friday in hopes of eliminating the password on the company’s mobile apps.
A researcher earned a $10,000 bounty from Yahoo for a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Yahoo Mail.
Yahoo has announced it will follow in the footsteps of Twitter and Facebook and begin warning users when it believes their accounts have been targeted by a state-sponsored actor.
Yahoo has hired former Twitter and Rapid7 security executive Bob Lord as its new CISO, taking over for Alex Stamos, who this summer left Yahoo for Facebook.
