November 28, 2017Canadian 'hacker-for-hire' pleads guilty in Yahoo breachA Canadian man pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges stemming from a massive breach at Yahoo that authorities say was directed by two Russian intelligence agents and affected at least a half billion user accounts.
November 9, 2017Marissa Mayer says she doesn't know how Yahoo got hackedFormer Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer admitted on Capitol Hill Wednesday that the Silicon Valley giant still doesn’t understand how hackers managed to compromise the information of billions of Yahoo users.
October 3, 2017Yahoo now says all 3B of its accounts were hackedYahoo! parent company Verizon said that all 3 billion of Yahoo!'s accounts were hacked, up from the original figure of 1 billion.
April 4, 2017Internet pokes fun at name for combined AOL-YahooIf you merge the letters from AOL and Yahoo, take a few away, and add a "t," you have Oath, which is what Verizon is planning to call a new entity combining the two companies after its acquisition of Yahoo is complete.
March 15, 2017Hackers to be charged in Yahoo security breachU.S. officials are planning to unveil charges Wednesday related to the theft of personal data that affected hundreds of millions of Yahoo users and disrupted the company’s sale to Verizon, according to people familiar with the matter.
March 2, 2017Another 32 million Yahoo accounts breachedAdd that to the 1.5 billion accounts that have already been compromised.
March 2, 2017Yahoo punishes CEO in latest fallout from security breakdownYahoo is punishing CEO Marissa Mayer and parting ways with its top lawyer for the mishandling of two security breaches that exposed the personal information of more than 1 billion users and already have cost the company $350 million.
February 16, 2017Yahoo is warning users over state-sponsored cookie-forging attacksYahoo has sent out a new warning to some users regarding allegedly state-sponsored cookie-forging attacks. It is believed that hackers were able to steal the company's cookie source code to conduct the attacks.
December 15, 2016One-billion-user Yahoo breach: What to do nowIf you held one of the billion Yahoo accounts that were compromised in a 2013 data breach, we're sorry.
December 15, 2016Yahoo hack: The 'Exxon Valdez of security breaches'Yahoo is coming under fire from security experts after the tech giant confirmed that more than one billion customer accounts have been compromised in a massive data breach.