It seems that everything is not going well for Yahoo! After Recode broke the news of hack of 500 million Yahoo users’ private data last Thursday. Now, The New York Times had reported that top executives, including CEO Marissa Mayer, knew about the security lapse and chose to ignore the vulnerabilities.
According to the reports, the security team at Yahoo “Paranoids,” that in 2014, Google and many other technology companies were hit by the attack. While Google chose to disclose about the hack and investigated the security lapse. They invested “hundreds of millions of dollars in security infrastructure” to find the solution of the vulnerabilities.
Whereas, the top security officials at Yahoo, turned down the Paranoids requests to disclose about the hack, and force users to change their passwords, and push for end-to-end encryption for all emails.
Instead of confronting the issue, and taking requisite steps to solve it, the executives decided to bury the news as they felt that this would lead users to seek out to other email clients.
Nearly after two years of the hack, Yahoo finally broke the news of the hack, “names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, security questions” were compromised in the hack.
According to the reports, the security team at Yahoo “Paranoids,” that in 2014, Google and many other technology companies were hit by the attack. While Google chose to disclose about the hack and investigated the security lapse. They invested “hundreds of millions of dollars in security infrastructure” to find the solution of the vulnerabilities.
Whereas, the top security officials at Yahoo, turned down the Paranoids requests to disclose about the hack, and force users to change their passwords, and push for end-to-end encryption for all emails.
Instead of confronting the issue, and taking requisite steps to solve it, the executives decided to bury the news as they felt that this would lead users to seek out to other email clients.
Nearly after two years of the hack, Yahoo finally broke the news of the hack, “names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, security questions” were compromised in the hack.