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After accessing target accounts, which belonged to younger women, he used password resets on third-party sites to break into Apple iCloud and other accounts.

For sexual content, ex-Yahoo engineer hacked into 6000 accounts

Ruiz, 34, used his employee access to the company's internal network to crack users' passwords.

02 Oct 2019 7:29 AM

Yahoo Japan bids for control of fashion e-tailer Zozo for USD 3.7 billion

Yahoo Japan aims to buy 50.1 per cent Zozo, whose market value was 680 billion yen.

12 Sep 2019 10:30 AM

Outage monitoring website Downdetector.com showed that more than four thousand users had been impacted

Yahoo experiences outage across its services, several users impacted

Yahoo said it suffered an outage on Thursday across its services, including Yahoo Mail.

05 Sep 2019 7:52 PM

A hearing on the revised settlement is scheduled for June 27.

Yahoo to pay USD 117.5 million in latest settlement of massive breach

The value of that settlement had been pegged at USD 50 million.

11 Apr 2019 9:57 AM

Yahoo agreed in July 2016 to sell its internet business to Verizon for USD 4.83 billion.

Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement

It covers as many as 194 million people in the United States and Israel with roughly 896 million accounts.

10 Apr 2019 12:20 PM

Yahoo Cricket Daily Fantasy experience draws from our US counterpart’s proven expertise in fantasy sports.

Yahoo Cricket launches daily fantasy game in India for cricket's big season ahead

Daily prizes and a tournament prize worth Rs 100,000 up for grabs Issue challenge to friends, play in corporate leagues.

01 Apr 2019 5:16 PM

Apple did not immediately respond to requests for comment. (Photo: Pixabay)

Apple accused of pressuring game rivals in Japan

Japanese regulators are investigating Apple over allegations it pressured Yahoo Japan to slow the expansion of its online games platform.

16 Aug 2018 12:23 PM

Supreme Court expresses concern for social media search engines like Facebook, WhatsApp and Yahoo for their irresponsible behaviour in promoting objectionable materials leading to lynching of people by violent mobs. (Photo: File)

SC slams social media sites for promoting content leading to lynching, violence

SC warns search engines of imposing Rs 5 lakh fine each per day till they develop mechanism to prevent uploading objectionable materials.

27 Jul 2018 9:08 PM

SoftBank said the deal will strengthen cooperation between the company, one of Japan’s big three telecoms firms, and Yahoo Japan, an internet heavyweight in areas such as news and shopping.

SoftBank tightens grip on Yahoo Japan via $2 billion deal with Altaba

SoftBank will buy 221 billion yen ($2 billion) of Yahoo Japan shares from Altaba, formerly internet giant Yahoo.

10 Jul 2018 2:25 PM

Yahoo Japan shares were up nearly 12 per cent in morning Tokyo trading.

Yahoo buys back USD 2 bn of shares in three-way deal with SoftBank

SoftBank will buy 221 billion yen ($1.99 billion) of Yahoo Japan shares from Altaba.

10 Jul 2018 8:58 AM

One of the pioneers in the field of instant messaging, Yahoo Messenger completed twenty years in March this year.

Yahoo Messenger to shut down on July 17

The users who are continuing to use the messaging service will be redirected to Squirrel, a new group messaging application.

10 Jun 2018 2:05 PM

Baratov and his attorneys also said his work with the Russia spy agency was unwitting.

Hacker gets 5 years for Russian-linked Yahoo security breach

The hacker was using stolen data passed to him by Russia’s Federal Security Service to hack dozens of email accounts of journalists.

31 May 2018 8:12 AM

A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and U U Lalit noted that despite its specific order to Yahoo, Facebook Ireland, Facebook India, Google India, Google Inc, Microsoft and WhatsApp, they have not filed any document to inform it about the progress made. (Representational image)

Sex abuse videos: SC slaps Rs 1 lakh cost each on Google, Facebook, others

The top court directed them to file an affidavit before June 15 spelling out measures taken by them to curb such videos.

21 May 2018 6:23 PM

The ride-sharing giant was vilified after the hacking in 2016 of data on 57 million of its riders and drivers, unveiled only in November 2017.

From Yahoo to Uber, major hacks of data

European Union's new data protection rules follow scandals involving lax personal data protection procedures.

15 May 2018 11:46 AM

Also listed are 84 user names linked the Russian "troll farm" so users can see if they had interactions with the entities.

Tumblr says Russians used its platform for disinformation in 2016

Tumblr said it uncovered the scheme late last year.

24 Mar 2018 9:21 AM

The breaches were revealed after New York-based Verizon agreed to buy Yahoo’s Internet business, and prompted a cut in the purchase price to about $4.5 billion.

Data breach victims can sue Yahoo in the United States

The company was accused of being too slow to disclose three data breaches that occurred from 2013 and 2016.

13 Mar 2018 10:46 AM

Yahoo user accounts began being compromised at least as early as 2014.

‘Hacker-for-hire’ pleads guilty to Yahoo breach

A Canadian man pleaded guilty on November 28 to charges stemming from a massive breach at Yahoo.

29 Nov 2017 6:53 PM

Google is the most used search engine in the world.

Google is now default search engine of Firefox, Yahoo surprised

Google will be Firefox’s default search provider on desktop and mobile in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and Taiwan

15 Nov 2017 9:21 AM

Yahoo! once a internet giant is now a pale shadow of its past.

Former Yahoo CEO apologises for data breaches, blames Russia

Yahoo required users to change passwords and took new steps to make data more secure, Mayer said.

09 Nov 2017 3:11 PM

Work with Facebook, Google to block explicit videos: SC to Centre

The instruction is meant to ensure that videos of rape, gang rape and child pornography are not available for circulation on the internet.

26 Oct 2017 6:10 PM

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