Yahoo's been circling the drain for years and is supposed to be on the verge of a buyout. Of course, she's going to get a nine-figure golden parachute.
She's not even fuckable. Fuck this piece of shit!
Months after announcing a deal to sell its core Internet business to Verizon for $4.8 billion, Yahoo is facing a major security breach that could prove problematic for closing the sale. On Thursday, Yahoo announced that a cyber-attack in late 2014 resulted in 500 million user accounts being stolen. The information includes “names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords (the vast majority with bcrypt) and, in some cases, encrypted or unencrypted security questions and answers,“ according to Yahoo, which believes the attack was carried out by a state-sponsored actor. But Yahoo’s confirmation of the breach—first reported by Recode’s Kara Swisher—is a problem for more than just Yahoo users. The hack, which sources described to Swisher as “widespread and serious,” is also a major headache for C.E.O. Marissa Mayer as she works to finalize a deal with Yahoo’s new owners.
The hack, which primarily targeted Yahoo’s e-mail client, was reported by Motherboard in August. At that time, the company said it was “aware of [the] claim” that 200 million Yahoo user IDs were being hawked on the dark Web for three bitcoins, or around $1,860. The stolen credentials dated back to 2012, according to Peace, the hacker selling them, and had never been made public. The data breach included usernames, dates of birth, e-mail addresses, and encrypted passwords, although Motherboard, which obtained a sample of the stolen login credentials, determined many weren’t legitimate user accounts.
When Motherboard first reported the breach, Yahoo released a statement saying that its security team was “working to determine the facts” and that “we take any such claim very seriously.” Now, with Yahoo expected to confirm it was hacked, investors may have reason to worry that the company’s ultimate sale price could be affected. As Swisher notes, Yahoo can’t be folded into Verizon until regulatory agencies and Yahoo shareholders sign off on the deal; with a major new liability potentially on its balance sheet, it’s not unreasonable to wonder if Verizon will adjust its offer. (Yahoo did not immediately return a request for comment.) The optics of the breach are also problematic for Mayer, who was unable to transform the ailing tech giant from a 1990s Web portal into something more enduring or dynamic. Still, Mayer will be fine no matter how Yahoo’s story ends. Should Verizon eventually fire her, the 41-year-old C.E.O. will walk away with a $44 million severance, which should help cushion the blow of a data breach involving so many Yahoo users.
is a great piece of ass, but Mayer's not doable? You dudes are nuts.
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