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The once web titan Yahoo has faced over four data breaches to date. The biggest one so far was in 2013 which affected over three billion Yahoo email account holders. Another one in late 2014 compromised data of over five hundred million users, the next one in 2016 where 200 million user accounts went for […]
Threats to the privacy of users of any online service are not generated only by hackers outside the companies. Data protection specialists report that a former Yahooo software engineer has just pleaded guilty of compromising the accounts of thousands of Yahoo users in order to find sex images and videos, preferably of young women and […]
Many people resort to pornography websites to satisfy their bodily needs. On the contrary, an ex-Yahoo engineer went miles ahead and hacked into real people’s accounts instead. Reyes Daniel Ruiz compromised 6,000 accounts of Yahoo users in order to find sexual videos and images. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose for […]
IT system audit specialists mention that the website Yahoo has created to present compensation claim due to the massive data breaches (which affected more than 3 billion users worldwide) is already online, although it’s not all good news. On this website, Yahoo notes that most users residing outside the US and Israel will not be […]
According to data protection specialists, Yahoo is about to close a $117.5 million USD settlement to end the class action against them due to a series of security breaches that affected the company’s users between 2012 and 2016. If you operated a Yahoo account during that period, you are likely to be eligible to receive […]
California Justice believes that the figure proposed by Yahoo is insufficient to address all the drawbacks caused by 2014 data breach Lucy Koh, a federal court district judge in San Jose, California, rejected the proposed agreement for the data breach that Yahoo suffered back in 2014. According to network security specialist from the International Institute […]
When ironed about how Yahoo failed to realize that 3 billion accounts and not 500 million as first proclaimed were endangered in what was later revealed to be a state-sponsored attack by Russia, former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer indicated that the specifics of the attack still remain unknown. “To this day we have not been […]
The data breach that took place in August 2013, already put a dent in Yahoo’s reputation. Last year, the company disclosed that around 1 billion user accounts were affected due to the Yahoo data breach. Now, according to the latest announcement, the number of affected accounts has tragically escalated to 3 billion. That’s almost the […]
The simple line of code made it possible for attackers to view private Yahoo Mail images. Yahoo has decided to retire the use of the ImageMagick library following a researcher’s disclosure of a simple way to break the system to cause email information leaks. Last week, security researcher Chris Evans demonstrated the exploit and released […]
Two Russian spies and two hackers were the miscreants who broke into Yahoo!‘s servers and swiped at least 500 million user account records. That’s according to the US Department of Justice, which today indicted [PDF] four men – including two senior officers in the FSB, the Russian Federal Security Service born from the Soviet-era KGB. […]
Nation-sponsored attackers targeted 26 specific accounts. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said she’ll forgo her 2016 bonus and any stock award for this year after the company admitted it failed to properly investigate hack attacks that compromised more than a billion user accounts. “When I learned in September 2016 that a large number of our user […]
Company knocks $350 million off its purchase price. Some five months after Yahoo disclosed a security breach that exposed sensitive data for 500 million accounts, some of its systems remained compromised, according to a report published Tuesday. The report said that in light of the hacks, Verizon would knock $350 million off the price it […]
It’s time to mention good-bye to Yahoo! Even as Yahoo’s core net business become being sold to Verizon for $4.8 Billion, the final portions of the corporation left in the back of is renaming itself to Altaba Inc, which marks the unhappy finishing of one of the most familiar emblem names on the net. In […]
Executives still looking into the deal, it seems. Verizon is once again unsure whether to complete the takeover of Yahoo or not, after the company recently acknowledged a 2013 hack that exposed 1 billion accounts. Verizon and Yahoo reached an agreement in 2016, but the deal became uncertain after Yahoo revealed that a total of […]
Just months after disclosing a breach that compromised the passwords for a half billion of its users, Yahoo now says a separate incident has jeopardized data from at least a billion more user accounts. The company also warned attackers have figured out a way to log into targeted Yahoo accounts without even supplying the victim’s […]
On Tuesday we found out internet giant Yahoo has been playing flunky for the FBI and NSA, helping the feds spy on hundreds of millions of Yahoo email users. A Reuters investigation revealed the company built special software at the government’s request that scanned all incoming emails looking for key words and phrases. If that […]
Short Bytes: Yahoo’s troubles don’t seem to be ending anytime soon. A Reuters’s report has just dropped a massive bombshell on the company, suggesting that Yahoo complied with a U.S. government request and implemented a secret software to scan all the emails. CEO Marissa Mayer gave green signal without any counsel with company’s security head Alex Stamos. Later, […]
Supposedly hacked data surfaced on underground website for sale in August. In August, a dealer in stolen data who goes by the online moniker “Peace”—the person or persons who previously sold data from the accounts of MySpace and LinkedIn users—announced that the results of another “megabreach” were for sale. This time, it’s the account information of […]
Rambler.ru, Russia’s Yahoo, suffered a data breach in 2012. Rambler.ru, a website nicknamed Russia’s Yahoo, suffered a data breach in 2012 at the hands of unknown hackers, who managed to steal nearly 100 million user records, data breach index service LeakedSource reports. According to data found inside the Rambler.ru data dump files, the incident took place […]
The hacker by the name “Peace” or “Peace_of_Mi nd” has uploaded 200 Million Yahoo! credentials up for sale on an underground marketplace called The Real Deal. the same hacker who was responsible for selling data dumps for LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr and VK.com on the dark web. In a temporary description, Peace says the Yahoo! […]
Online advertising is a multi-billion dollar business mostly ran by Google, Yahoo or Bing via AdSense-like programs. The current generation of clickbots such as the Redirector.Paco Trojan have taken abuse to a whole new level, burning through companies’ advertising budget at an unprecedented pace. This paper is based on research carried by Bitdefender antimalware researchers Cristina Vatamanu, Răzvan Benchea and […]