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Senators Demand Timeline of Yahoo’s Handling of Massive Data Breach – ABC News

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Senators Demand Timeline of Yahoo's Handling of Massive Data Breach
ABC News
In a letter to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer today, six Democratic senators have asked the tech company to provide further details of a massive data breach the company revealed last week, including when exactly the company became aware of it. Since the hack …
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Yahoo’s claim of ‘state-sponsored’ hackers meets with skepticism

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Yahoo has blamed its massive data breach on a “state-sponsored actor.” But the company isn’t saying why it arrived at that conclusion. Nor has it provided any evidence.

The lingering questions are causing some security experts to wonder why Yahoo isn’t offering more details on a hack that stole account information from 500 million users.

“I think there’s a lot of fishiness going on here,” said Michael Lipinski, the chief security strategist at Securonix.

Yahoo didn’t respond to a request for comment. The company has protocols in place that can detect state-sponsored hacking into user accounts. In a December 2015 blog post, the company outlined its policy, saying it will warn users when this is suspected. 

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Yahoo’s homepage through the years

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Yahoo’s reported willingness to pay $11M for ‘insurance’ was the real March Madness

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You may recall that last year around this time Yahoo, Warren Buffett and Quicken Loans teamed up to offer this challenge: If anyone could pick the winner of every single game in the NCAA’s 64-team, six-round March Madness basketball tournament, he or she would win a billion dollars.

No one met the challenge, or came close. In fact, the tournament wasn’t even half over before the final perfect bracket sheet was no longer perfect. This came as no surprise to anyone, in large part because the odds against completing the challenge successfully were one in 9 quintillion or one in 128 billion, depending on who’s doing the math, according to this explanation in Slate.

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