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

29

Sep

2016

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. […]

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Questions Mount Around Yahoo Breach

27

Sep

2016

As Yahoo continues to investigate the biggest data breach in history, pressure is mounting on the company to admit when it knew about the attack, whether there was a delay in reporting it, and also about how it implements cryptography to secure data it’s responsible for. Security company Venafi said it examined data from its […]

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Yahoo Reveals Nation State-Borne Data Breach Affecting A Half-Billion Users

23

Sep

2016

But still unconfirmed is whether the newly revealed attack is related to recently dumped Yahoo user credentials in an online cyber-crime forum. The other shoe has dropped – maybe. Nearly two months after signs of a Yahoo data breach surfaced with leaked user credentials in the cyber-crime underground, Yahoo today confirmed that it had suffered […]

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