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Millions of credentials for Facebook, eBay and Yahoo leaked

Millions of credentials for Facebook, eBay and Yahoo leaked

Nearly 71 million login credentials for Facebook, Roblox, eBay, and Yahoo have been available online in recent months. The data breach was immediately added to the website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP). The millions of login credentials were published on an underground marketplace that trades stolen ... Read more

date2 months ago
Yahoo to spin off its AI scaling engine Vespa

Yahoo to spin off its AI scaling engine Vespa

Yahoo is to spin off its own AI scaling engine platform Vespa. The spin-off should make this platform more widely available, the IT provider says. According to Vespa, the company has matured, and the spin-off should result in other companies being able to benefit from the technology more. Yahoo ... Read more

date6 months ago
Yahoo! will flourish or bury itself forever with plans for an IPO

Yahoo! will flourish or bury itself forever with plans for an IPO

Yahoo! announced plans to go public again. The search engine disappeared from the radar after it lost all its users due to the rise of Google. Out of the blue, the CEO is now coming out with positive news about a possible return. According to Jim Lanzone, CEO of Yahoo!, his organization is "very... Read more

date9 months ago
Irish watchdog moves to convict Yahoo of illegal cookie tracking

Irish watchdog moves to convict Yahoo of illegal cookie tracking

The Irish Data Protection Authority (DPA) wants to convict Yahoo of AVG/GDPR violations. According to the watchdog, Yahoo's websites offered insufficient options to refuse cookie tracking in recent years. Yahoo has been under investigation by the Irish DPA since 2019. The watchdog wants to conv... Read more

date1 year ago
Verizon sells entire media division, which gets renamed to Yahoo

Verizon sells entire media division, which gets renamed to Yahoo

The American telecom provider has decided to split off its entire media division. The various media under Verizon will be in the hands of private equity firm Apollo Global Management, which is putting down 5 billion dollars (over 4 billion euros) for the business. Verizon's media branch is the r... Read more

date3 years ago
Verizon to sell Yahoo and AOL at massive loss?

Verizon to sell Yahoo and AOL at massive loss?

Verizon is ready to give up Yahoo and AOL, after spending over $9 billion on the former giants that fell out of the public eye years before Verizon paid to acquire them. The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon is exploring the sale of assets that include AOL and Yahoo, as it looks to exit ... Read more

date3 years ago
Startup Lumi Labs from former Yahoo-CEO working on productivity apps

Startup Lumi Labs from former Yahoo-CEO working on productivity apps

Lumi Labs, a new startup of former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee Marissa Mayer, is working on apps and tools that will help people become more productive. This includes software to manage contacts. Lumi Labs was founded last year and now employs about twenty software engineers. The contacts ap... Read more

date5 years ago
U.S. court rejects Yahoo’s settlement proposal

U.S. court rejects Yahoo’s settlement proposal

An American judge has rejected Yahoo's proposed settlement around the data breaches in 2013 and 2014. This leaves parent company Verizon Communications with a problem, because it now has to look for an alternative way to satisfy about 200 million people. The proposed settlement covered plaintiffs in... Read more

date5 years ago
Hackers find simple method to bypass two-stage verification

Hackers find simple method to bypass two-stage verification

Hackers have found a new way to bypass two-stage verification. The hackers have succeeded in automating this process and can thus relatively easily break into accounts of Google and Yahoo, among others. Secure e-mail accounts do not seem as secure as expected. At least that's what Amnesty Internatio... Read more

date5 years ago
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