A Yahoo mass data breach hits millions of Yahoo accounts. This happened in August, about a month ago. So why am I talking about it now?
Because they’re just getting around to confirming the breach. This is according to a recode.net article. Various sources said the breach hit over 200 million accounts. Last month Yahoo claimed to be investigating the matter. The hackers themselves claimed to be infecting and selling the accounts online. Here’s more irony. A well known cyber criminal named Peace has claimed responsibility. Peace claimed he sold the combined 200 million Yahoo accounts for only $1,800. This includes usernames, easily encrypted passwords, other people’s emails, and account holders’ personal information.
The confirmation of this hacking will be announced in the days to come. This comes at a time when Yahoo looks for buyers, like Verizon. Yahoo could be sold for as much as 4.8 billion dollars. But this hack could scare new investors and buyers to death. I’m almost certain this massive hack will drive the price down. But Yahoo and Verizon continue to negotiate a merger. However, this is another blow to Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer’s already turbulent resume. They had such high hopes Meyer could turn Yahoo around. But this hack is just another bad end to what has been a very sorry episode.
This episode includes being overpowered by Google and other search engines. Then came controversy over time off after birth. Don’t forget the mass exodus of Yahoo leaders who couldn’t deal with it anymore. Now they deal with a massive hacker attack. Let’s talk about these criminals. A crook calling him/herself Peace is selling your information, and mine, for only $1,800. That sounds like a good amount of money at first. But they’re selling 200 million accounts. That breaks down to 90 cents per 2,000 accounts. That’s how little you’re worth to these cyber criminals. That’s how little your security is worth to these cyber criminals. So I’ll put Yahoo, Verizon and the rest on notice. How much is our online security worth to them?