In recent years, the company Yahoo! has had great problems in terms of confidential data protection si user security. Cyber attacks which targeted the company, managed to evade confidential data of Yahoo accounts.
Latest hacker attacks, which was known until recently, were in 2014. Then he succeeded in two "waves", breaking the 32 of millions of accounts, yet 500 of millions of accounts, in another cyber attack that's all in 2014.
After which Verizon has bought Yahoo!, during the integration and some thorough investigations, obtained new information, according to which Yahoo Accounts broken in 2014, are part of a "batch" of accounts that were broken in August 2013. At that time they were broken over 1 billions of Yahoo! accounts, from those 3 existing billions. As a result, the company began sending notifications of possible "account breaches" to the 2 billion unaffected accounts. At least, that's what they think… They're unaffected.
Hackers have obtained information such as: Yahoo Account Passwords, the e-mail addresses that were made corespondetele, personal data users, security questions si raspunsuriloe their. However, the company says the passwords were not broken in clear text, and bank card data and bank account information remained safe.
For the future, Verizon, which acquired Yahoo earlier this year, says it is committed to securing user security and being as transparent as possible in security issues.
"Verizon is committed to meeting the highest standards of accountability and transparency and we work proactively to ensure the safety and security of our users and networks in an evolutionary online threat landscape",
said Chandra McMahon, Chief Information Officer, Verizon.
We are not able to say if buying Yahoo! will it be a good affair for Verizon, but certainly Yahoo! has lost a lot in recent years. From Battle With Facebook, the date on the Messenger service, which led to the almost total disappearance of Yahoo! Messenger from some markets to security issues which led to lower users' confidence.
There have been great times when Yahoo! Authentication mail or Yahoo! Messenger it was impossible, even though user and password were good.
