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Four charged, including Russian gov’t agents, for massive Yahoo hack

Mar

2017

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has charged four people, including two Russian state intelligence agents, for their involvement in a massive hack of Yahoo that affected half a billion accounts. In September, Yahoo said hackers had managed to steal personal data on more than 500 million users during an attack in late 2014. The […]

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Inside the Russian hack of Yahoo: How they did it

Mar

2017

The hack began with a spear-phishing email sent in early 2014 to a Yahoo company employee. It’s unclear how many employees were targeted and how many emails were sent, but it only takes one person to click on a link, and it happened. Once Aleksey Belan, a Latvian hacker hired by the Russian agents, started poking […]

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Yahoo execs botched its response to 2014 breach, investigation finds

Mar

2017

If your company has experienced a data breach, it’s probably a good idea to thoroughly investigate it promptly. Unfortunately, Yahoo didn’t, according to a new internal investigation. The internet pioneer, which reported a massive data breach involving 500 million user accounts in September, actually knew an intrusion had occurred back in 2014, but allegedly botched […]

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