All this time, I have been a staunch advocate of Yahoo vs. Google when it comes to privacy and security. The last month has shown me how shaky the ground is on which I stand vis-a-vis Yahoo. First there was news that
data for 500-million Yahoo accounts was compromised:
Yahoo has confirmed that a data breach from 2014 hit 500 million
users, allowing hackers access to sensitive information, including
poorly encrypted passwords.
A press release from Yahoo confirms the news, and follows reports earlier today
that Yahoo was set to confirm the breach. If true, stealing the user
credentials from 500 million users would be one of the largest hacks
ever to hit a US company.
And now, this (quoting
BGR):
Intelligence agencies wanted Yahoo to scan all Yahoo Mail emails looking
for a specific signature. Apparently, agents of a foreign terrorist
organization were communicating using Yahoo “with a method that involved
a ‘highly unique’ identifier or signature.” The investigators did not
know what email accounts were used, so they needed Yahoo’s help to
discover them.
Not a good coda for Marissa Mayer's tenure at Yahoo.
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