Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for the NSA

Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for the NSA

In an astounding and “unprecedented” new account of U.S. government surveillance, Reuters reported Tuesday that Yahoo secretly scanned all of its customer’s incoming emails for a specific set of characters, per request of the National Security Agency (NSA) or FBI. The news agency broke the investigation after speaking with “two former employees and a third…

Yahoo Hit in Worst Hack ever, 500 Million Accounts Swiped

Yahoo Hit in Worst Hack ever, 500 Million Accounts Swiped

Hackers swiped personal information associated with at least a half billion Yahoo accounts, the internet giant said Thursday, marking the biggest data breach in history. The hack, which took place in 2014, revealed names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and, in some cases, security questions and answers, Yahoo said in a press release. Encrypted…