Yahoo! up little by little the veil on the “hack of the century” – The Echoes

the contours of The “hack of the century” is defined. But very gradually. A month and a half after it announced that more than 500 million accounts of its users had been hacked, Yahoo! just give more details about this cyber attack unprecedented in its quarterly report submitted Wednesday to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), le gendarme american stock.

based on the investigations it has conducted in recent weeks, the group argues that the perpetrators of this piracy have ” created cookies (snippets of code that are installed on a computer and used to track the browsing on the Internet, editor’s NOTE) qiu may have allowed the hackers to bypass the password to access some user accounts, or account information “.

Continuing to support that this cyber-attack was the work of hackers ” sponsored by a State “, the former flagship of the Web also suggests that some of its employees were aware of the intrusion, right after that took place, at the end of the year 2014, without specifying if members of management were as well.

For memory, the hack has not been officially recognized by Yahoo! only last September, while the boss of the group, Marissa Mayer would have been informed as early as July 2016, also believes the ” New York Times “. For the time being, 23 group actions have been brought against the Yahoo ! in this case.

What about the buy-out by Verizon ?

In a hollow, the questions about the redemption of the Internet activities of Yahoo! by Verizon , for $ 4.8 billion, soar always. The transaction can be challenged through mass piracy ? In the quarterly report, the group of Marissa Mayer acknowledges that the operator could ” seek to cancel ” the transaction or at least to renegotiate the terms.

last month, the management of Verizon had not hidden be in the process of assessing the implications of this cyber attack and that it reserves the possibility of renegotiating the amount of the acquisition. According to the New York Post, the operator would seek to obtain a discount of $ 1 billion. “We have reasonable grounds to believe that the impact of the cyberattack is important ” has appeared to be assured, in mid-October, Craig Silliman , head of legal department of Verizon.

a Few days later, Marissa Mayer had commended the loyalty of its users, implying that there had been no mass exodus. In the document handed to the SEC on Wednesday, Yahoo! evaluate that to $ 1 million the impact of this hack non-standard at the date of 30 September… Saw the blur and the uncertainties that continue to surround this case, not sure these assertions convince Verizon not to, as a minimum, réasseoir to the negotiating table.