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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 class-action law firm Schubert, Jonckheer & Kolbe said in a news release that the stolen file includes 277.1 gigabytes of data, and includes names, address histories, relatives and Social ...
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually.
December 14, 2016: A separate data breach, occurring earlier around August 2013 is reported. This breach affected over 1 billion user accounts and is again considered the largest discovered in the history of the Internet. [152] The data taken is similar to the data breached earlier except that it had very weak password encryption.
The new proposal includes a single fund from which $55 million would be available for out-of-pocket costs and $24 million in identity theft protection for class members.
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 ...
The data did not incorporate visit statistics for the Yahoo!-owned Tumblr website or mobile phone usage. [23] On September 22, 2016, Yahoo disclosed a data breach in which hackers stole information associated with at least 500 million user accounts in late 2014. [24] According to the BBC, this was the largest technical breach reported to date. [25]
Stolen from National Public Data (NPD) were 2.9 billion records including names, addresses, Social Security numbers and relatives dating back at least three decades, according to law firm Schubert ...