Yahoo warns users of account breaches related to recent attacks<article>
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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.</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 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>
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Yahoo warns users of account breaches related to recent attacks
