Verizon this week announced planet to merge Yahoo and AOL into a unified behemoth called Oath. Business Insider was the first to report the news, which was later made official by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. Billion+ Consumers, 20+ Brands, Unstoppable Team. #TakeTheOath. Summer 2017. pic.twitter.com/tM3Ac1Wi36— Tim Armstrong (@tim_armstrong) April 3, 2017 A big rebranding campaign is...
Earlier this year, it was revealed that Yahoo experienced a breach in 2014 that led to more than 500 million user accounts breached. It turns out that that number was only half of the story. Yahoo lost over 1 billion user accounts in a 2013 breach. 1 BILLION! Not many details have been released at this moment and Yahoo has yet to release a statement, but it has acknowledged the breach...
Earlier this week, we learned that Yahoo had been scanning its entire email service for the FBI using software that was developed by Yahoo in-house. Now a new report reveals how the company developed the scanning system and what kind of information the U.S. government was looking for. According to The New York Times, Yahoo actually modified an existing system originally designed to...
Following Yahoo's admission that state-sponsored hackers stole information from half a billion of its users, the floundering website really needed some good news. Unfortunately, today's report is anything but good; in fact, it's worse. According to Reuters, Yahoo designed bespoke software designed to scan hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the instruction of the U.S....
In what could be one of the biggest breaches of all time, Yahoo on Thursday confirmed "at least" 500 million user account credentials were stolen in 2014. The possible user information that may have been compromised as part of the hack includes names, email addresses, and hashed passwords. A note on Yahoo's investors' page says the hack was "state-sponsored," and that the company is...
Yahoo will reportedly soon fess up to a massive data breach that affects hundreds of millions of its users, Re/code said on Thursday. If it sounds scary, that's because it is. Hackers appear to have gained information on 200 million Yahoo accounts, which Re/code says have been up for sale on the dark web. News of the hack first came to light this summer, but it wasn't clear if the...
Heads up: A hacker is reportedly currently trying to sell a dump of Yahoo accounts, up to 200 million of them, on The Real Deal Dark Web, according to Softpedia. This is particularly frightening given the sheer size of the number of accounts available for purchase, but also because this is the same person who allegedly dumped millions of MySpace passwords. And we all know what happened...
Verizon announced early Monday morning that it has reached an agreement to acquire Yahoo for $4.53 billion in cash. The news follows a report from late last week that suggested the two companies had settled on a deal and that an announcement was imminent. "The acquisition of Yahoo will put Verizon in a highly competitive position as a top global mobile media company, and help...
Verizon is reportedly ready to acquire Yahoo and will announce the deal in the "next few days," Bloomberg said Friday. The report follows months of bidding from companies that reportedly included Google, AT&T, Comcast, Time, Microsoft and several private equity firms at various points. Yahoo had been shopping its business around to potential suitors as revenues continued to dive...
Verizon is reportedly planning to make a bid for Yahoo as soon as next week, with Google also in contention for a takeover. Bloomberg claims a handful of big-name companies are circling Yahoo's business as it continues to spiral out of control. According to an earlier report from Re/Code, Yahoo's revenue is expected to take a dive to $3.5 billion this year, down from $4.1 billion in...