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Yahoo! webmail! hacker! faces! nearly! eight! years! in! the! cooler!
2018-04-19 18:25

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...

Yahoo! Hacker! Faces! Nearly! Eight! Years! In! Prison!
2018-04-19 18:25

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...

Federal Judge: Yahoo Breach Victims Can Sue
2018-03-13 11:33

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 CISO Bob Lord Joins DNC
2018-01-26 05:19

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...

The Cumulative Effect of Major Breaches: The Collective Risk of Yahoo & Equifax
2017-12-07 18:32

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...

Canadian Pleads Guilty to Hacking Yahoo
2017-11-29 18:39

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

22-Year-Old Hacker Pleads Guilty to 2014 Yahoo Hack, Admits Helping Russian Intelligence
2017-11-29 00:56

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...

Former Yahoo CEO: Stronger Defense Couldn't Stop Breaches
2017-11-08 23:33

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...

Life After Yahoo: Mayer Forced to Testify Before Senate
2017-11-08 13:33

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...

The 2013 Yahoo breach affected all 3 billion of its users
2017-10-04 15:40

Yahoo, now part of the newly created Verizon subsidiary Oath, has announced that the 2013 breach it disclosed in December 2016 affected more users than previously believed. New information “At...