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The first data breach occurred on Yahoo servers in August 2013 [1] and affected all three billion user accounts. [2] [3] Yahoo announced the breach on December 14, 2016. [4] Marissa Mayer, who was CEO of Yahoo at the time of the breach, testified before Congress in 2017 that Yahoo had been unable to determine who perpetrated the 2013 breach. [5]
The Yahoo Voices breach occurred on July 12, 2012, when a hacking group calling themselves "D33DS Company" used a union-based SQL injection attack to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo's servers. [5] The attackers were able to extract and publish unencrypted account details, including emails and passwords, for approximately 450,000 user accounts ...
It is estimated that the average cost of a data breach will be over $150 million by 2020, with the global annual cost forecast to be $2.1 trillion. [2] [3] As a result of data breaches, it is estimated that in first half of 2018 alone, about 4.5 billion records were exposed. [4]
The billions of people who had their sensitive information snatched from their Yahoo accounts between 2013 and 2016 are now ... settlement valued at $117.5 million for repeated data breaches. ...
November: The Anonymous hacktivist collective announced that they have hacked into four Chinese computer databases and donated those to data breach indexing/notification service vigilante.pw. The hack was conducted in order to support the 2019 Hong Kong protests , amidst the Hong Kong police's siege of the city's Polytechnic University .
It also includes $30 million in attorney fees and $2.5 million in legal costs, a slight reduction from the original fee request. Lawyers File New Yahoo Data Breach Settlement, Boosting Its Value ...
Lawyers for Mercer University have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by four former students and a past instructor seeking unspecified damages in the wake of a data-security breach ...
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