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Title: Yahoo warns users of account breaches related to recent attacks Post by: HCK on February 18, 2017, 04:05:14 pm Yahoo warns users of account breaches related to recent attacks
<article> <section class="page"> <p> 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.</p><p> The warning, in email messages sent from Yahoo CISO Bob Lord, tell users that a forged cookie may have been used to access their accounts in previous years.</p><p> The warning to Yahoo users come at the same time that news reports suggest that Verizon Communications, in negotiations to buy Yahoo, may be seeking a discount (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-15/verizon-reduces-yahoo-deal-price-by-250-million-in-revised-deal) of US$250 million because of the data breaches.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3170692/security/yahoo-warns-users-of-account-breaches-related-to-recent-attacks.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Yahoo warns users of account breaches related to recent attacks (http://www.macworld.com/article/3170692/security/yahoo-warns-users-of-account-breaches-related-to-recent-attacks.html#tk.rss_all) |