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Former Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer blames Russians for massive data breach at Senate hearing

Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo, apologised for the data breaches in 2013 and 2014 that affected 3 billion user's privacy.

Yahoo admits security hack was three times worse than believed, hitting all 3bn accounts

Yahoo says all three billion user accounts were hit in a hack earlier in the year, three times more than previously thought. The company was sold to Verizon in June.

Ex-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is 'looking forward to going back to Gmail'

Prior to Yahoo, Mayer worked at Google for 13 years after she was hired straight out of Stanford.

Yahoo boss Marissa Mayer to pocket $186m on sale to Verizon

The chief executive's windfall includes stock, stock options and a ''golden parachute''.

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Dow continues rise with 8th straight record day

Still happy with the state of things, US markets continue upward trajectory.

Couple live streams baby's birth on Facebook

Beware – Your Facebook Live videos are not private and can be used by the media

US judge rules that Facebook Live videos cannot be copyrighted if the footage is being streamed publicly.

Yahoo warns users of potential malicious activity on accounts between 2015 and 2016

Yahoo said hackers used forged cookies to gain illegal access to users' accounts without a password.

Yahoo hit with angry letter from US senators demanding urgent response to hacking probe

The tech giant cancelled a congressional briefing on 31 January at the last minute.

Verizon seeks new deal following Yahoo hack as authorities renew scrutiny into breach

Yahoo is being investigated by the SEC over previously disclosed data breaches - Report

The SEC is reportedly looking into whether Yahoo's disclosures about the hacks were in accordance with laws.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to step down after Verizon deal as remaining business to be named Altaba

Yahoo co-founder David Filo and four other board members will also be resigning.

Hacked Yahoo data has already been sold on the Dark Web for £300,000 researcher claims

Expert believes the batch has been sold three times – once to an intelligence agency.

FBI investigating newly discovered Yahoo breach of one billion user accounts, White House says

Yahoo said an 'unauthorised third party' stole data associated with over one billion user accounts in 2013.

Verizon seeks new deal following Yahoo hack as authorities renew scrutiny into breach

Experts believe that some concessions from Yahoo may be likely, given the magnitude of the breach.

Email is broken: If you really want to beat hackers, use WhatsApp or Signal

Cloudflare engineer says there's no point encrypting emails with PGP – if you want security, use an app.

One billion Yahoo accounts hacked in new breach exposing personal data

Names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and hashed passwords have all been exposed.

Yahoo admits staff knew of 'state-sponsored' hack in 2014

Yahoo is facing 'at least' 23 putative class action lawsuits after major hack.

Yahoo Mail down: UK users unable to send emails for over 10 hours

This is the second time in a month that Yahoo users have been unable to send email.

Yahoo and ACLU challenge US government to declassify forced surveillance orders

Yahoo wants to 'set a precedent of transparency' amid mass surveillance claims.

Yahoo re-enables automatic email forwarding feature after disabling it temporarily

Yahoo apologised for the interruption of mail forwarding feature.

Google received over 44,000 government requests for user data in first half of 2016

In the UK Google received data requests for 3,302 users in first half of 2016.

Verizon says Yahoo data breach had 'material' impact and could affect $4.83bn deal

Many investors and experts have expressed concerns over the impact of the data breach on the takeover deal.

Yahoo do you think you are? Email forwarding disabled making it hard for users to leave

The company claims the feature is 'under development', but suspicious timing can't be ignored.

Verizon CEO dismisses report of $1bn discount on hacked Yahoo as 'total speculation'

'We still see a real value in the asset,' Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam said.

Sacked male executive suing Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer for discrimination

The former employee accuses Mayer and two other female executives of illegally purging male workers.

Yahoo may have exposed emails of Canadians who used Rogers telecom service

The company has denied the allegations and termed them as misleading.

Yahoo used child pornography and spam filter to scan emails of users for FBI – report

FBI wanted access to emails to intercept communications of a foreign terrorist organisation.

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