Yahoo Data Breach: What Actually Happened?
The past 15 years have seen some large scale and truly horrifying security breaches; some are so devastating that it bankrupted the victim company. A security or data breach is the intentional or unintentional release of secure or private/confidential information to an untrusted environment. Stolen Information, Stolen Information, Password Guessing, Recording Keystrokes, Phishing, Malware and Denial-of-Service are some common types of data breaches. According to Forbes, Data breaches exposed 4.1 billion records in the first six months of 2019. On an organization level, AOL was the first victim of phishing attacks in 1996 but Yahoo Data Breach was the biggest data breaches in history. Let’s review and analyze the case.
Yahoo (2013-14) Impact: 3 billion user accounts Yahoo Data Breach Settlement Amount: $117.5 million
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