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Yahoo’s new billion-account data breach could threaten $4.8 billion sale to Verizon
Yahoo on Wednesday said it had discovered a new data breach of more than a billion accounts, dwarfing the hack it revealed three months ago and threatening the company’s $4.8 billion sale to Verizon. And security experts are warning of potential far-reaching damage to Yahoo users from the just-announced breach. “This could be the knockdown, one-two punch for that deal,” said Peter Csathy, a tech industry consultant and chairman of CREATV Media. Yahoo on Wednesday issued a statement saying personal information from more than a billion user accounts was stolen in 2013. The news followed the company’s ... (full story)
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