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The hacker exposed half a billion Yahoo accounts on behalf of Russia's FSB

Prosecutors ask judge to give Baratov 94 months for stealing accounts on behalf of FSB The Canadian hacker who helped Russian agents by breaking into more than 11,000 Yahoo email accounts could...

Prosecutors ask judge to give Baratov 94 months for stealing accounts on behalf of FSB The Canadian hacker who helped Russian agents by breaking into more than 11,000 Yahoo email accounts could...

Plaintiffs Claim Spam and Card Fraud Resulted From Breach of 3 Billion AccountsA federal judge has largely rejected a motion by Verizon to dismiss a class-action suit filed by victims of three...

Former Yahoo chief information security officer Bob Lord has been appointed chief security officer at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the formal governing body for the United States...

Until quite recently, people believed that a dizzying one billion accounts were compromised in the 2013 Yahoo! breach… and then it was revealed that the real number is about three billion...

A 22 year-old Canadian national accused of carrying attacks on Yahoo pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges returned by a grand jury in the Northern District of California in February 2017. read more

Karim Baratov, a 22-year-old Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen, has pleaded guilty to hacking charges over his involvement in massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected all three billion yahoo...

Marissa Mayer Testifies on the Challenges of Halting State-Backed Persistent AttacksThe former CEO of Yahoo, which has had 3 billion records exposed in a 2013 data breach, testified at a Senate...

Former CEO Reportedly Subpoenaed After Declining to Appear VoluntarilyFormer Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer may have envisioned spending her post-Yahoo days seeking new work or experimenting with other...