Judge rejects Yahoo data breach settlement
A judge has rejected Yahoo's proposed settlement with millions of people whose personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history.
A judge has rejected Yahoo's proposed settlement with millions of people whose personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history.
Digital Rights Watch, the Human Rights Law Centre, Amnesty International and Access Now have joined forces with a number of industry bodies representing the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple and Telstra to reject the government’s so called ‘encryption bill’.
An accomplice accused of helping Russian agents break into Yahoo email accounts has been sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a US$250,000 fine.
Yahoo has been ordered by a federal judge to face much of a lawsuit in the United States claiming that the personal information of all 3 billion users was compromised in a series of data breaches.
Yahoo on Tuesday said that all 3 billion of its accounts were hacked in a 2013 data theft, tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history, which already had spawned a nationwide lawsuit.
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Yahoo has begun warning individual users that their accounts with the service may have been compromised in a massive data breach it reported late last year.
Australian government officials – including cabinet and shadow-cabinet ministers, state premiers and Department of Defence employees, as well as judges and high ranking AFP officers – are reportedly among the victims of the 2013 Yahoo hack, newly released datasets reveal.
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will resign from the company’s board of directors after its $4.83 billion sale to Verizon is completed.
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Verizon has signaled that Yahoo's massive data breach may be enough reason to halt its US$4.8 billion deal to buy the internet company.
Yahoo has reportedly searched through all of its users' incoming emails with a secret software program that's designed to ferret out information for U.S. government agencies.
Yahoo has called a Reuters article about a secret email scanning program "misleading," and said no such system exists.
Yahoo'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.