Yahoo Mobile is a new mobile phone service from Verizon that costs $39.99 per month. The new cell phone service comes with unlimited talk, text, and data, and operates on Verizon’s 4G LTE network, so if you get good service from Verizon, you should also get good service from Yahoo. Yahoo Mobile will not throttle …
As far as data breaches go, the one that hit Yahoo back in 2014 was a doozy. When the dust settled, Yahoo revealed that hackers managed to abscond with sensitive information and credentials from upwards of 500 million users. At the time, the company said it believed a state-sponsored group was behind the attack, and …
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 money. Google did it for years before terminating the practice. And it’s not exactly reading, more like scanning the contents of your inbox in most cases. The practice, however, is …
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 from 2013 to 2016 that exposed the personal data of all its users to attackers. If you’re one of the US-based victims of these breaches and are seeking some sort …
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 Yahoo first disclosed details of the hack last year, the iconic website — which is now owned by Verizon — said that 1 billion Yahoo users were impacted. Now comes …
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 about $4.5 billion, a price that was reduced by hundreds of millions in February, after details of a major Yahoo security breach leaked. As the vote took place today, details …
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 provided its long-running acquisition of Yahoo’s core businesses goes through, it will be the dubiously proud owner of that company as well. We already knew that Verizon planned on merging …
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 Justice has indicted four suspects for the 2014 Yahoo hack that affected more than 500 million accounts. An early report revealed how Russian spy operatives and hackers were able to …
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 biggest data breaches in the world. Yahoo was hacked in 2014 but the company only disclosed it two years later, when it confirmed that more than 500 million accounts were …
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 Justice Department has concluded at least one investigation and will announce on Wednesday the indictments of two Russian spies as well as two criminal hackers who will all be formally …
