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In 2013 and 2014, the Internet service company Yahoo was subjected to two of the largest data breaches on record. Neither breach was revealed publicly until September 2016. The 2013 data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 and affected all three billion user accounts. The 2014 breach affected over 500 million user accounts.
2016. July 25, 2016: Verizon agrees to purchase Yahoo's operating business for $4.8 billion. September 22, 2016: Yahoo! reports a data breach of user account data that occurred sometime in late 2014, and affected over 500 million Yahoo! user accounts − said to be the largest known data breach by then.
On 20 July 2015, the Ashley Madison website put up three statements under its "Media" section addressing the breach. The website's normally busy Twitter account fell silent apart from posting the press statements. One statement read: At this time, we have been able to secure our sites, and close the unauthorized access points.
The breaches were revealed after New York-based Verizon agreed to buy Yahoo's Internet business, and prompted a cut in the purchase price to about $4.5 billion. Data breach victims can sue Yahoo ...
Yahoo, now part of New York-based Verizon Communications Inc, was accused of being too slow to disclose three breaches from 2013 to 2016 that affected an estimated 3 billion accounts. U.S. judge ...
More than 1 billion Yahoo accounts may have been exposed after a third-party hacker hit the internet company in a separate attack. Yahoo mega-breach exposes more than 1 billion accounts Skip to ...
From October 2014 to at least November 2016, Belan and at least two others accessed user account information Using the fruits of the 2014 breach? The filing noted that the company believed the data breach had been conducted through a cookie-based attack The September filing or the November filing? it was reported that account names and ...
Yahoo just revealed that in August 2013, someone stole data linked to more than one billion accounts. Back in September, the company announced a 2014 security breach affecting some 500 million ...