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The Luxury Car Buff at the Center of the Yahoo Hack

EghtesadOnline: When Karim Baratov said on Facebook he’d paid off a mortgage and drove a BMW 7 series at high school, classmates thought he had rich parents. The money may have come, instead, from a secret life as a cyber hacker, including work for Russia’s top spy agency.
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Publish Date:19/March/2017 | 22:13

Yahoo email scan shows U.S. spy push to recast constitutional privacy

EghtesadOnline: Yahoo Inc's secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a U.S. spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have against arbitrary governmental searches, according to legal documents and people briefed on closed court hearings.
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Publish Date:21/December/2016 | 20:26

Stolen Yahoo Data Includes Government Employee Information

EghtesadOnline: More than 150,000 U.S. government and military employees are among the victims of Yahoo ! Inc.’s newly disclosed data breach, and their names, passwords, telephone numbers, security questions, birth dates, and backup e-mail addresses are now in the hands of cybercriminals.
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Publish Date:15/December/2016 | 07:40

Yahoo not to hold quarterly earnings call or webcast

EghtesadOnline: Yahoo Inc said on Friday that it would not hold a call or webcast when it reports third-quarter results on Tuesday, citing its pending $4.83 billion deal with Verizon Communications Inc.
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Publish Date:15/October/2016 | 07:07

U.S. pressed to disclose secret court's order on Yahoo email search

EghtesadOnline: A U.S. senator and civil groups critical of surveillance practices on Friday called on the government to release a 2015 order by a secret court directing Yahoo to scan all its users' incoming email, saying it appeared to involve new interpretations of at least two important legal issues.
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Publish Date:08/October/2016 | 09:16

Verizon to incur $500 million in pre-tax costs from Yahoo deal

EghtesadOnline: Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) said on Thursday it expected to incur about $500 million in pre-tax expenses in the second quarter as a result of its $4.48 billion purchase of Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) core business.
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Publish Date:15/June/2017 | 22:20

Verizon closes Yahoo deal, Mayer steps down

EghtesadOnline: Verizon Communications Inc said on Tuesday it closed its $4.48 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc's core business and that Marissa Mayer, chief executive of the internet company, had resigned.
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Publish Date:14/June/2017 | 08:42

Yahoo beats Wall Street view, sees Verizon deal closing in second quarter

EghtesadOnline: Yahoo Inc on Monday reported better-than-expected quarterly profit and revenue, and said the sale of its core internet business to Verizon Communications Inc should be completed in the second quarter, allaying some investor concerns that the deal might collapse.
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Publish Date:24/January/2017 | 05:19

Yahoo ’s Data Breaches Unlikely to Derail Verizon Deal

EghtesadOnline: The second major hack of Yahoo ! Inc. user accounts is unlikely to derail Verizon Communications Inc.’s $4.83 billion acquisition of the tech giant, with investors and the public becoming inured to near-daily disclosures of cyberattacks.
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Publish Date:28/December/2016 | 04:54

Yahoo security problems a story of too little, too late

EghtesadOnline: In the summer of 2013, Yahoo Inc launched a project to better secure the passwords of its customers, abandoning the use of a discredited technology for encrypting data known as MD5.
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Publish Date:19/December/2016 | 22:17

Yahoo under scrutiny after latest hack, Verizon seeks new deal terms

EghtesadOnline: Yahoo Inc came under renewed scrutiny by federal investigators and lawmakers on Thursday after disclosing the largest known data breach in history, prompting Verizon Communications Inc to demand better terms for its planned purchase of Yahoo 's internet business.
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Publish Date:17/December/2016 | 08:32

EU questions U.S. over Yahoo email scanning, amid privacy concerns

EghtesadOnline: The European Commission has asked the United States about a secret court order Yahoo used to scan thousands of customer emails for possible terrorism links, following concerns that may have violated a new data transfer pact.
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Publish Date:12/November/2016 | 06:40

Women executives left Yahoo amid layoffs, deal talk

EghtesadOnline: Women executives left Yahoo Inc at an unusually high rate after the U.S. technology company announced plans to sell itself earlier this year, but it was not immediately clear why, according to the company's 2016 diversity report, released on Monday.
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Publish Date:01/November/2016 | 11:55

Yahoo profit beats Wall St., some analysts worry over effect of hack

EghtesadOnline: Yahoo Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly adjusted profit on Tuesday, a boost for the beleaguered company whose deal to sell its core business to Verizon Communications Inc has been shaken by a massive data breach.
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Publish Date:19/October/2016 | 06:34