The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in Germany was pissed off with the internet giant Yahoo for not copperating with them in investigating the security breaches in 2013 and 2014 which affected more than 1 billion accounts users.
BSI President Arne Schoenbohm released a statement saying that Yahoo “clearly failed to adequately protect itself against cyberattacks, as well as to secure its users’ data, as one would expect from an IT company.”
Last year only, the company revealed about a massive data breach of 1 billion accounts that happened back in 2013. In 2014 also they suffered a data breach of more than 500 million account users, including names, telephone numbers, passwords, and birth dates.
However, Yahoo’s Dublin office “refused to give the BSI any information and referred all questions to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, without, however, giving it the authority to provide information to the BSI,” the statement added.
According to reports from Reuters, the BSI had gone public about their frustration after "Yahoo repeatedly failed to respond to the attempts to investigate the incidents in order to prevent similar lapses."
The German agency has tried to contact Yahoo regarding the details of the attacks, the extent of the damage, what measures they have taken to abate such incidents in future, but they has not received any word from them.
“Users should therefore be very careful about which services they want to use in the future and to whom they entrust their data," Schoenbohm said.
BSI President Arne Schoenbohm released a statement saying that Yahoo “clearly failed to adequately protect itself against cyberattacks, as well as to secure its users’ data, as one would expect from an IT company.”
Last year only, the company revealed about a massive data breach of 1 billion accounts that happened back in 2013. In 2014 also they suffered a data breach of more than 500 million account users, including names, telephone numbers, passwords, and birth dates.
However, Yahoo’s Dublin office “refused to give the BSI any information and referred all questions to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, without, however, giving it the authority to provide information to the BSI,” the statement added.
According to reports from Reuters, the BSI had gone public about their frustration after "Yahoo repeatedly failed to respond to the attempts to investigate the incidents in order to prevent similar lapses."
The German agency has tried to contact Yahoo regarding the details of the attacks, the extent of the damage, what measures they have taken to abate such incidents in future, but they has not received any word from them.
“Users should therefore be very careful about which services they want to use in the future and to whom they entrust their data," Schoenbohm said.