Yahoo data breach casts ‘cloud’ over Verizon deal

Yahoo on Thursday reported the largest data breach in history — affecting at least 500 million user accounts — months after first detecting signs of an intrusion that the company blamed on "state-sponsored" hackers.

The Web giant called on customers to change their passwords and institute other protective measures, but the largest fallout could be for Yahoo itself. The long-faltering company this summer agreed to sell its core business for $4.8 billion to telecommunications giant Verizon in a deal now clouded by news of the massive breach. Verizon said it learned of the incident only "within the last two days."



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500 million Yahoo user accounts' data was compromised. Here's how to protect yourself.

Ailing tech giant Yahoo confirmed a data breach affecting hundreds of millions of accounts. The breach is among the largest on record.

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Don't have a Yahoo email address and think you're safe from the hack?

As we should all know by now, Yahoo announced at the end of last week that it had been massively hacked - exposing details of half a billion accounts.

And, as I have mentioned in subsequent articles, some users of other email services (Sky, BT, etc...) could also be at risk because those companies chose to get Yahoo to handle their webmail service.


Well, it gets worse because - as the Bitcrack Computer Security blog points out - it turns out it's not as simple as just checking whether you have a Yahoo, BT Yahoo Mail or Sky email address..

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Yahoo hackers weren't state-sponsored, a security firm says

Common criminals, not state-sponsored hackers, carried out the massive 2014 data breach that exposed information about millions of Yahoo user accounts, a security firm said Wednesday.

Yahoo has blamed state actors for the attack, but it was actually elite hackers-for-hire who did it, according to InfoArmor, which claims to have some of the stolen information.  

The independent security firm found the alleged data as part of its investigation into "Group E," a team of five professional hackers believed to be from Eastern Europe.

"According to our information, most of the group's clientele are spammers," said Andrew Komarov, InfoArmor's chief intelligence officer.


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