In November, Yahoo determined through law enforcement officials that an unauthorized third party stole data files which contained Yahoo user data. In an official Yahoo statement, the details are given: “Based on further analysis of this data by the forensic experts, we believe an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with more…
Yahoo recently determined that 500 million user accounts have been stolen from the “company’s network” and users who have not changed their passwords since late 2014 should do so now. It is considered the largest data breach ever recorded. The following official statement defines the details of the huge breach: “A recent investigation by Yahoo! Inc….
For the last two weeks, an IT team from the U.S House of Representatives has effectively blocked representatives from using Yahoo Mail, Gmail and appspot.com, “the domain where Google hosts custom-built apps.” Purportedly since June 2015, Google’s appspot.com has been hosting a remote access trojan which is designed to extract personal information from users. Gmail and Yahoo…