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Yahoo March 15, 2017

Hackers to be charged in Yahoo security breach

U.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.

Yahoo March 2, 2017

Another 32 million Yahoo accounts breached

Add that to the 1.5 billion accounts that have already been compromised.

Security March 2, 2017

Yahoo punishes CEO in latest fallout from security breakdown

Yahoo 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.

Security February 16, 2017

Yahoo is warning users over state-sponsored cookie-forging attacks

Yahoo 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.

Security December 15, 2016

One-billion-user Yahoo breach: What to do now

If you held one of the billion Yahoo accounts that were compromised in a 2013 data breach, we're sorry.

Security December 15, 2016

Yahoo 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.

Security December 14, 2016

Yahoo confirms more than one billion accounts compromised in massive data breach

Yahoo announced Wednesday that hackers stole data from more than one billion customer accounts.

Yahoo October 11, 2016

Never can say goodbye: Yahoo just made it hard to leave by disabling email forwarding

Concerned by Yahoo's historic data breach that affected some 500 million user accounts? Did you want to do something about it? Well, "too bad" appears to be the message Yahoo is sending to its users.

Security October 5, 2016

Yahoo denies mass email spying claim

Yahoo denies building spying software to scan all of its customers’ incoming emails for U.S. intelligence agencies, a claim reported by Reuters Tuesday.

Security October 4, 2016

Yahoo built email spying software for intelligence agencies, report says

Last year, Internet giant Yahoo built software to spy on incoming emails of hundreds of millions of accounts for U.S. intelligence agencies, according to Reuters.

Security September 23, 2016

Yahoo confirms 500 million accounts compromised in huge data breach

Yahoo has confirmed that hackers stole information from at least 500 million user accounts in what it describes as a “state-sponsored” attack.