Artifact, the AI news app created by Instagram cofounders, was acquired by Yahoo
Artifact had previously announced that it was shutting down the small but beloved AI-driven news app around two months ago. It was expected that was …
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Yahoo is still reading some of your emails
It’s not unheard of for email service providers to read users’ emails to target them with better-tailored ads that would help the company make more …
Judge rules that Yahoo Mail data breach victims can sue Yahoo
You just have to think of Yahoo when talking about security data breaches, and that’s because Verizon’s newest subsidiary was the victim of repeated hacks …
Every single Yahoo account was impacted by 2013 security breach
As it turns out, the impact of a data theft incident that hit Yahoo back in 2013 was much more widespread than initially imagined. When …
Verizon finalizes Yahoo acquisition, instantly starts laying people off
In a vote today, Yahoo’s stockholders formally approved the sale of sad former internet company Yahoo to telecoms giant Verizon. The sale values Yahoo at …
AOL and Yahoo are merging into ‘Oath,’ one giant ball of sadness
AOL and Yahoo, two failed internet companies that now mostly serve to leak your data, are hurtling towards a merger. Verizon already owns AOL, and …
Russian hackers targeted just one Yahoo employee in order to breach 500M accounts
More details about the activities that led to one of the biggest data breaches in history are coming to light now that the Department of …
How Russian hackers breached your Yahoo Mail account
The Department of Justice on Wednesday identified four people, including two Russian spies and two criminal hackers, as the main suspects behind one of the …
DOJ has charged Russian spies allegedly responsible for massive Yahoo breach
It’s been an uneasy few months for Yahoo, which had to disclose three different large-scale breaches, two of which affected more than one billion accounts in total. The …
Yahoo’s failed CEO will get a $23 million severance package following Verizon deal
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will step down from her role with the company following Yahoo’s sale to Verizon, it was announced today. Mayer has been …
Change your passwords… again: Yet another Yahoo data breach affected 32 million accounts
A few weeks ago, a new Yahoo data breach came to light, the third such disclosure in a matter of months. Yahoo contested that the …
New Yahoo hack: Hackers didn’t even need your password to breach your account
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Yahoo was hacked. Yes, again. Or better said, your Yahoo account may have been breached by hackers. …
After Verizon acquires Yahoo, ‘Altaba’ will be left behind
Yahoo was hit with two major security breaches in recent years that affected well over 1 billion user accounts. The company only discovered and admitted …
Massive security breaches may cost Yahoo its $4.8 billion deal with Verizon
Verizon announced this summer plans to buy Yahoo for $4.83 million. Since then, Yahoo had to acknowledge two major security breaches that may now cost …
How I knew Yahoo had been hacked before Yahoo did
So, Yahoo got hacked again. It’s a new, bigger breach than the one Yahoo most recently admitted to, and over a billion user accounts have …
How to protect yourself following the massive Yahoo hack
Yahoo did it again, folks. In less than six months, Yahoo admitted that its security was breached twice, with hackers stealing data for hundreds of …
Yahoo confirms over a billion users hacked in new attack
Yahoo has reportedly confirmed the existence of a hack that affects “more than one billion user accounts.” Before you think we’re back in September, Yahoo …
Yahoo launches standalone Yahoo Answers app so we can decide if God is real or not
Yahoo Answers is one of the internet’s greatest punchlines, but the fact remains that the long-running platform is still a popular destination for people with …
Yahoo didn’t disable email forwarding to stop users fleeing
A few days ago, Yahoo removed one of the basic features you expect from an email provider. Yahoo Mail lost the email forwarding feature, and …
Did Yahoo just shut down basic email forwarding to stop users from leaving?
Two massive security and privacy scandals hit Yahoo in the past weeks, and each one of them is a good enough reason to leave Yahoo …
To spy on users, Yahoo modified tools that were supposed to protect them
Many tech companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter said they had not helped governmental agencies spy on their users like Yahoo did. Some said …
How to delete your Yahoo account
Two massive security scandals have hit Yahoo in a matter of days. First, the company acknowledged that hackers stole usernames and passwords for at least …
Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook don’t spy on you like Yahoo
It’s not like Yahoo needed a second major privacy scandal on top of the massive data breach it suffered back in 2014, and which it …
Yahoo built email spying software for intelligence agencies, report says
Last year, Internet giant Yahoo built software to spy on incoming emails of hundreds of millions of accounts for U.S. intelligence agencies, according to Reuters. …
This is why Yahoo did not reset your password after the massive data breach
Yahoo last week confirmed what many already feared, that unknown hackers have been able to steal account data belonging to hundreds of millions of users. …
Massive data breach hit 500 million users, Yahoo confirms
Yahoo has confirmed that a data breach from 2014 hit 500 million users, allowing hackers access to sensitive information, including poorly encrypted passwords. A press release …
Yahoo to confirm hackers stole passwords for 200M accounts all the way back in 2012
Yahoo will confirm later this week that hackers did breach its systems in 2012, stealing personal data for about 200 million accounts, including easily decrypted …
