Senators demand answers about Yahoo’s unprecedented data breaches

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by Sindy Cator on February 14, 2017 at 12:09 am

Two Republican senators are losing patience with Marissa Mayer. Today, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) set a February 23 deadline to address unanswered questions about two unprecedented data breaches. In a letter to Mayer, the two claim the Yahoo CEO has been “unable to provide answers to many basic questions about the reported breaches.” The breaches in question are those from 2013 and 2014. The 2014 hack compromised some 500 million accounts, making it the largest data breach in history. It didn’t hold the record for long. After signing on the dotted line in July 2016, Verizon…