Yahoo! was set to reveal a massive flight of data, according to the specialized site ” Recode “. At the beginning of the month of August, a hacker nicknamed “Peace” was announced to put on sale on TheRealDeal, a platform for illegal sale on the darknet, names, encrypted passwords and other personal information (e-mail addresses, dates of birth) of $ 200 million of Yahoo! dating back to 2012.
sale Price from the database ? 3 bitcoins, or the equivalent of 1.860 billion. The hacker had said in August at the specialized site “Motherboard” to resell already the data case-by-case for some time. “Peace” is not unknown in the middle : his list of facts weapon is already long.
In may, the hacker, who says he is Russian, had revealed the hacking of more than 100 million user accounts, LinkedIn , forcing the professional social network to admit to having under-estimated the problem in 2012, when he had referred to a figure of 6.5 million accounts.
During the same month, it had announced the sale of the data of 360 million accounts, Myspace , and 65 million of the site Tumblr, owned by Yahoo!. In June, there was added 100 million accounts VK.com, which is the Russian equivalent of Facebook and 33 million Twitter accounts….
After the publication of this information this summer, Yahoo! had recognized be aware of the subject and investigate it, without a confirm or deny for the same. Thursday evening, the california-based company had not yet responded to the article, “Recode” .
Verizon offers the historical activities of Yahoo!
The confirmation of this vulnerability – the extent of which may be higher than the number mentioned in August, according to the “Recode” – could have consequences on the resale of the main activities of Yahoo! (search engine, advertising, information sites) to the telecom operator american Verizon.
The transaction was sealed this summer for $ 4.8 billion, but is expected to be completed at the beginning of the next year only. The two companies are still awaiting the approval of a number of regulatory bodies, as well as shareholders. The price could be revised downwards in response to these revelations, writes ” Recode “.
It is especially the lack of responsiveness of the company, which has not asked its users to change their passwords, a practice still recommended even in cases of mere suspicion, which poses a problem. Because the sales price data on the darknet, below $ 2,000, and the date of the facts, suggests that the information in themselves are not of great value. In the sample of 5,000 accounts obtained by “Motherboard” in August, a large number were no longer active.
New failure for Marissa Mayer
The revelation is in any case a new failure for Marissa Mayer , who has not been able to give back to the portal and search engine to the glory of its early days, after his appointment to the post of CEO in 2012, and had to resolve to sell the historic heart of the company at a price far below the $ 125 billion of valuation that has been able to reach Yahoo! in the heart of the Internet bubble.
founded in 1994 by two Stanford students, the search engine has lost ground after the arrival of Google. The company then made a series of bad choices, missing large acquisitions, such as Facebook and YouTube, and scattering in too many areas.
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