While the soap opera of the sale to Verizon, including a price reduction, continues its course, the guys at Yahoo are still a focus of news when it comes to hacker attacks, account thefts and others. Throughout 2016, the company has recognized that in the past, it suffered the theft of data on the one hand of more than 1.000 million accounts and on the other hand of 500 million, something that seriously staggered the sale to Verizon. But also it was confirmed that he had collaborated with the NSA to offer free access to all user accounts. Do not go yet, there's more.
Marisa Meyer, CEO of YAhoo
Yahoo has confirmed that more than 32 million accounts were affected by another attack, which the company has not been able to place in time, an attack that confirms that Yahoo's security engineers did not finish the race, since they did not need the passwords to access the accounts, but only made use of the same software that Yahoo uses to create cookies, to create fraudulent cookies and to mislead the system simply with the username.
Newly Yahoo has not directly reported this new attack, but has kept his mouth shut until the rumors have begun to be published and the press has contacted the company, which offered information with very little detail and with little data that could explain the latest security problem that has the company suffered in recent years.
This is very likely not the last scandal surrounding the company once the sales process to Verizon has been completed. Verizon does not want to have any problems in the future and changed some parts of the agreement so that the company would take care of the possible sanctions that it could receive from the American authorities that are investigating these attacks combined with the company's negligence in matters of security.