Yahoo Triples Likely Scope of '13 Hack to 3 Billion Users

[DonViejo]

Source: Bloomberg




By Crayton Harrison
October 3, 2017, 4:38 PM EDT October 3, 2017, 4:56 PM EDT

Yahoo, the internet company acquired by Verizon Communications Inc. this year, now believes a 2013 security breach affected all 3 billion of its users at the time.

The assessment, based on new intelligence obtained after the $4.5 billion acquisition, compares with Yahoo’s initial estimate that 1 billion accounts were compromised. The information stolen didn’t include passwords in clear text, payment data or bank accounts. Yahoo is notifying users.

Verizon, which is combining Yahoo with its AOL business to attract more internet advertising, had negotiated a $350 million price cut on the deal after Yahoo disclosed the 2013 breach and a subsequent hack in 2014. The attacks exposed user accounts and threatened Yahoo’s trust with consumers.

Verizon, based in New York, was little changed in late trading.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/yahoo-says-all-3-billion-users-probably-affected-by-2013-breach

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Yahoo was going to stop spam

it never ends.

In the early internet days I would grab the ISP's on spam, and report them. It slowed it down for a couple months.
Then you realized nothing was being done about it.

PayPal too was always fighting spam. [e-mail]. 'we're working hard to stop spammers and phishing'.

The Reagan Administration was right about something. Disinformation is a great strategy. When they'll take fake,
give them fake. When they steal fake, it does you no harm.

[FakeNoose]

2. Yahoo makes all their money off the fake-news machine

Probably most of their advertisers pay them in rubles now. They're worse than Facebook if that's possible.
Spam emails are totally out of control.