8 years ago059IN BREIF: Silicon Valley Business Journal editor-in-chief Scott Ard has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo alleging gender-based discrimination against men. The lawsuit filed in a federal district court in San Jose, California, claimed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, “encouraged and fostered the use of (an employee performance rating system) to...
8 years ago058Civil and human rights groups issued denunciations and some cybersecurity experts urged their clients to stop using the popular Yahoo Mail service after a news agency reported Tuesday that the internet service provider had secretly scanned hundreds of millions of clients’ emails at the behest of U.S. intelligence agencies.
The...
8 years ago046Yahoo’s announcement that state-sponsored hackers have stolen the details of at least 500 million accounts shocks both through scale—it’s the largest data breach ever—and the potential security implications for users.
That’s because Yahoo, unlike MySpace, LinkedIn and other online services that suffered large breaches in...
8 years ago051Yahoo confirmed Thursday information on at least 500 million users has been stolen in a massive cyber breach.
The breach, first reported by Re/Code, was later confirmed by Yahoo's Chief Information Security Officer Bob Lord.
We have confirmed that a copy of certain user account information was stolen from the company's network in...
8 years ago042Hundreds of millions of hacked user names and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia's criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters.
The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru (MAILRq.L), Russia's most popular email service, and smaller fractions of...
8 years ago055Yahoo goes on sale today. While the company’s immediate fate may have no short-term implications on the channel, the sale is attracting a lot of interest from analysts and experts who have plenty of thoughts on what Yahoo’s demise says about the changing nature of the digital market.
Books can—and will—be written on where...