Yahoo secretly scanned millions of its users’ email accounts on behalf of the US government, according to a report. Reuters news agency says the firm built special software last year to comply with a classified request. “Yahoo is a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States,” the tech firm said … Read more
Hackers managed to steal data from 500 million Yahoo email accounts and the tech giant is now under pressure to explain how the cyberattack happened. The US technology giant believes the 2014 attack, which has only just come to light, was state-sponsored and could be the biggest ever security breach for a firm. Yahoo said … Read more
Hackers stole information from about 500 million users from Yahoo, the company has confirmed. The breach occurred in late 2014 and included swathes of personal identifiable information, as well as “unencrypted security questions and answers”. It did not include any credit card data, the site said, adding it believed the attack was state-sponsored. In July, … Read more