Yahoo under SEC investigation for keeping the lid on data breaches for years
Yahoo may have just gotten a new name, but its past mistakes keep coming back to haunt its future. The Wall Street Journal reports the company is currently under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission for delaying its massive data breach announcements for years. Following reports that a hacker was selling the private credentials of over 200 million Yahoo accounts last August, the iconic company eventually revealed in September that it had suffered a major attack in 2014, affecting over 500 million users. Later in December, the search engine giant announced yet another billion accounts had been compromised in a breach dating back to 2013. Now the SEC…
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