1/25/2024 0 Comments Yahoo headline news world“It’s unfortunate that when we are talking about this organization, a massive breach doesn’t come as a big surprise,” he said. Security researcher Kurt Baumgartner from Kaspersky Lab also criticised Yahoo for its slow response to the attack but said it was not unexpected. “While its scale puts it among the largest on record, I am perhaps most troubled by news that this breach occurred in 2014, and yet the public is only learning details of it today,” he said, urging Congress to create a data breach notification standard to ensure consumers find out sooner if their data has been compromised. US Senator Mark Warner, who has worked in the technology industry and often speaks on tech issues, described the seriousness of the breach as “huge”. “Already besieged by business execution issues and enduring a fire sale to Verizon, this may be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.” “Yahoo may very well be facing an existential crisis,” said Corey Williams, from identity management software company Centrify. Yahoo announced it was investigating a data breach earlier this summer but at the time thought just 200m user accounts were affected. Users should be very wary of any emails purporting to come from Yahoo, particularly if they prompt the users to click any links, download any attachments or give out any personal information. “ Yahoo encourages users to review their online accounts for suspicious activity and to change their password and security questions and answers for any other accounts on which they use the same or similar information used for their Yahoo account,” said the company. The company has also invalidated affected users’ security questions so that they can’t be used to access accounts. Yahoo is notifying users who may have been affected and says that anyone who has not changed their Yahoo passwords since 2014 should do so.
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